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Re: Triggering on exception conditions

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  • Subject: [mg128367] Re: Triggering on exception conditions
  • From: Bob Hanlon <hanlonr357 at gmail.com>
  • Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2012 01:25:32 -0400 (EDT)
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data1 = With[{h = 20},
   Module[{y},
    Table[y = PowerMod[k, -1, h];
     {Mod[k, h],
      If[FreeQ[y, PowerMod], y, 0]},
     {k, 1, h - 1}]]] // Quiet

{{1, 1}, {2, 0}, {3, 7}, {4, 0}, {5, 0}, {6, 0}, {7, 3}, {8, 0}, {9,
  9}, {10, 0}, {11, 11}, {12, 0}, {13, 17}, {14, 0}, {15, 0}, {16,
  0}, {17, 13}, {18, 0}, {19, 19}}

data2 = With[{h = 20},
    Module[{y},
     Table[y = PowerMod[k, -1, h];
      {Mod[k, h],
       y*Boole[FreeQ[y, PowerMod]]},
      {k, 1, h - 1}]]] // Quiet;

data3 = With[{h = 20},
    Module[{y},
     Table[y = PowerMod[k, -1, h];
      {Mod[k, h],
       If[NumericQ[y], y, 0]},
      {k, 1, h - 1}]]] // Quiet;

data4 = With[{h = 20},
    Module[{y},
     Table[y = PowerMod[k, -1, h];
      {Mod[k, h],
       y*Boole[NumericQ[y]]},
      {k, 1, h - 1}]]] // Quiet;

data1 == data2 == data3 == data4

True


Bob Hanlon


On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 12:37 AM, Lorenz <lorenz.mueller at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> Assume I have a statement like
> Table[ {Mod[k, h], PowerMod[k, -1, h]}, {k, 1, h - 1}]
> How can I select the elements in the table which fullfill the condition
> PowerMod::ninv: 2 is not invertible modulo xxx
>
> I would like a statement with a form like
> If[PowerMod[2, -1, h] == ninv, 1, 0]
> but this does not work.
>
> More general how to catch exceptions in calculation for each type of exception condition, eg in this case PowerMod::ninv
>



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