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Author(s)

Isabel M. Beichl, F Sullivan

Abstract

In this prescription we'll describe one technique for working with extremely large integers having perhaps thousands of digits, using only standard hardware and software. This technique uses modular arithmetic in a way that lets us recover the actual integers if necessary.
Citation
IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering
Volume
2
Issue
No. 3

Keywords

greatest common division, integer computation, modular arithmetic

Citation

Beichl, I. and Sullivan, F. (2000), A=B?, IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering (Accessed December 11, 2024)

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Created May 1, 2000, Updated February 17, 2017