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Numerics BigInteger.Remainder (Mod) doesn't work with negative divisors

Consider the following equations: 10 % 3 = 1 10 % -3 = -2 10001 % 30 = 11 10001 % -30 = -19 C#'s System.Numerics.BigInteger Seems to produce positive results for negative divisors, as if ...
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Why am I getting a system overflow using big integer (System.Numerics)?

I am getting this error: System.OverflowException: 'The value is not a number.' I was under the impression that big integer could store any sized value (500 ^ 500 in this case), so I don't understand ...
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How do I compare hex representation of 2 BigIntegers

I need to compare sha256 hashes according to bitcoin proof of work algorithm. So the requirement is to create an upper boundary by setting a target difficulty and then create hashes of data + nonce ...
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C# Create BigInteger from string of different base [duplicate]

How can I create a Numerics.BigInteger object from a string of another base in C#, like binary or hex string? For example: ...
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byte[] to unsigned BigInteger?

Motivation: I would like to convert hashes (MD5/SHA1 etc) into decimal integers for the purpose of making barcodes in Code128C. For simplicity, I prefer all the resulting (large) numbers to be ...
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