# What is faster? Modular Arithmetic functions and operations

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-faster-modular-arithmetic-functions-and-operations/51211>\
**Category:** Performance\
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**Created:** [December 3, 2020, 5:03pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-faster-modular-arithmetic-functions-and-operations/51211 "2020-12-03T17:03:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 4, 2020, 1:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/what-is-faster-modular-arithmetic-functions-and-operations/51211/21 "2020-12-04T01:08:25Z")

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I wouldn’t use a bigint for `digits` at all, since that isn’t a big number. Instead use `big(10)^c`

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