Though I find it a bit cringey, I've decided to learn in public—hoping it might benefit others (and me if other people wanna learn with me or help along the way)

On Day 1 of my zk journey, I focused on modular arithmetic. Here's a breakdown of what I learned and some invaluable resources:

You will eventually get to finite fields. I have found the chapter from David Forney's lecture a great introduction to the topic. Only 27 pages btw.

https://web.stanford.edu/~marykw/classes/CS250_W19/readings/Forney_Introduction_to_Finite_Fields.pdf

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https://github.com/Hmac512/ec-basepoint-funsies/blob/735703dab35a74a873016029c430b26dc4078866/ec_basepoint.py#L95

Made it fun little script to test some of the properties of finite fields.

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