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Pari's lift function "lifts" a modular residue back into the integers. 
? lift( 1 / Mod(3,17) )
%1 = 6

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Presumably it is available from the Math::Pari bindings somehow (I only know pari, not the Perl bindings).

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Re^2: Using modular numbers with Math::Pari
by hv (Prior) on Oct 29, 2009 at 14:45 UTC

    Thanks!

    perl -MMath::Pari=PARI,Mod,lift -wle 'print lift(PARI(1)/Mod(3,17))'
6

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    Perfect - not sure I'd ever have found that searching the docs myself.

    Hugo

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