Practical Applications
RNS have applications in the field of digital computer arithmetic. By decomposing in this a large integer into a set of smaller integers, a large calculation can be performed as a series of smaller calculations that can be performed independently and in parallel. Because of this, it's particularly popular in hardware implementations.
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