On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 3:24 PM, David Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> On Mar 31, 2008, at 6:09 PM, William Stein wrote:
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> > Relevant code:
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> [snip]
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> To profile this properly, you shouldn't do it just at powers of ten,
> since the running time will depend heavily on the factorisation
> pattern of n. I guess you should do some examples with lots of small
> prime factors, examples with high prime powers, examples with just a
> prime, etc.

I know.  I just had about 10 minutes to spend on this, and thought
people might be interested in a data point.   It might even inspire
somebody (you!) to do something better :-).

> Perhaps if you have a bound for the size of the coefficients you
> could do a modular approach. Work mod N where the coefficients are
> guaranteed to be at most N

Would your new mod N poly arithmetic code be useful for this?

-- William

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