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Keeping part of a big number


I have wrote below program to extract the last five digits of n number that is the answer of function below:

n = 1^1 + 2^2 + ... + m^m

where m is given by the user. The program works all right for small number but it will not work for m as big as 100^100.

#include <iostream>
#include <math.h>
using namespace std;

int main()
{
  int n;

  cin>>n;
  intmax_t a[n],num,rem;
  a[0]=0;
  for (int i=1; i<=n; i++){

    a[i] = a[i-1]+pow(i,i);
  }

  num=a[n];

  int b[5];
  for (int i = 1; i <=5; i++) {
    rem = fmod(num,10);
    b[i]=rem;
    num = num/10;
  }

  for (int i = 1; i <=5; i++) {
    cout<< b[i];

  }
  return 0;
}

Solution

  • "Get last five digits" mean mod 100000. In fact, 100^100 is really small. You don't need to use bignum in this case since (a*b) mod n = ((a mod n) * (b mod n)) mod n.

    #include <iostream>
    using namespace std;
    
    int getLastDigits(int base, int pow, int numDigit) {
        int divisor = 1;
        for (int i = 0; i < numDigit; i++) 
            divisor *= 10;
    
        int retVal = 1;
        for (int i = 0; i < pow; i++) {
            retVal *= base;
            retVal %= divisor;
        }
    
        return retVal;
    }
    
    int main()
    {
        int n;
    
        cin>>n;
        int res = 0;
        for (int i=1; i<=n; i++){
            int tmp = getLastDigits(i,i,5);
            //cout << tmp;
            res += tmp;
        }
    
        cout << res % 100000;
        return 0;
    }
    

    FOr really big n, you can look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_exponentiation