From: Kevin Ryde <user42@zip.com.au>
Cc: guile-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Forwarded patch for modular exponentiation support (GMP powm)
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:31:06 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oes7rft1.fsf@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874qtzsv3c.fsf@zip.com.au> (Kevin Ryde's message of "Tue, 10 Feb 2004 09:15:35 +1000")
I wrote:
>
> Also, if m is negative
Oops, I meant the exponent k there.
> The case can be detected
> by mpz_invert, though it will be wasteful to do the same as what
> mpz_powm is about to do.
Actually, I think what you'll want is to call mpz_invert explicitly,
then mpz_powm with the inverse (when it exists) and the absolute value
of the exponent.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-09 23:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-01-28 17:22 Forwarded patch for modular exponentiation support (GMP powm) Rob Browning
2004-02-09 23:15 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-02-09 23:31 ` Kevin Ryde [this message]
[not found] ` <87llnah2hf.fsf@offby1.atm01.sea.blarg.net>
2004-02-11 1:02 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-02-11 7:00 ` Eric Hanchrow
2004-02-11 23:44 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-02-12 4:56 ` Eric Hanchrow
2004-02-14 0:23 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-02-15 0:04 ` Eric Hanchrow
2004-02-15 22:08 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-03-20 21:20 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-03-20 21:32 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-03-21 2:28 ` Marius Vollmer
2004-03-21 22:18 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-03-22 0:01 ` Eric Hanchrow
2004-03-22 0:37 ` Kevin Ryde
2004-03-25 0:02 ` Kevin Ryde
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