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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
Pub Type
Journals
Keywords
greatest common division, integer computation, modular arithmetic
Citation
Beichl, I.
and Sullivan, F.
(2000),
A=B?, IEEE Computing in Science and Engineering
(Accessed June 4, 2023)