I forgot to mention some additional details that may help prospective
sponsors make decisions.
In comparison to gmp-ecm, pyecm has several advantages. First, it does
not display any mathematical notation when factoring a number, making it
more useful to those not familiar with factoring algorithms. It displays
only factors. In addition, it displays ALL factors, unlike gmp-ecm,
which displays the first factor it finds and lets the user find the
rest. Showing all the factors again makes it more useful to a
non-mathematical user.
Second, pyecm is much more portable than gmp-ecm. It is contained in a
single python file and will run anywhere python and psyco do, without a
recompilation needed. In addition, it is easy to understand
(comparatively ;) ) and is less than 250 lines.
Finally, on all tests done (several in the 30-digit range), I have found
pyecm to be faster than gmp-ecm in factoring numbers.
Hope this helps,
Martin Kelly
Martin Kelly wrote:
Dear mentors,
* Package name : pyecm
Version : 0.1
Upstream Author : Martin Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* URL : http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyecm/
* License : GPLv2
Section : Mathematics
It builds these binary packages:
pyecm - Factors large numbers (<= 50 digits) using ECM (Elliptic Curve
Method)
The package can be found at mentors.debian.net:
- URL: http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pyecm/
- dget http://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/p/pyecm/pyecm_0.1-1.dsc
pyecm is lintian and linda clean.
This is my first package but I would love to start working with Debian
as a package maintainer :).
Thanks all,
Martin Kelly
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