Mersenne: Another cash prize for Mersenne testing?

2002-03-27 Thread paul landon
Whilst I was surfing I came across the word Mersenne, even though I didn't search for it. After I had finished laughing, I had to tell you people. The Hack Furby Challenge is a $250 prize offered by Peter van der Linden http://www.afu.com/fur.html for software to do something with a Furby. The

Mersenne: operations allowed with values in the frequency domain

2002-03-27 Thread Naessens Yan
With a FFT, we get values va[0..n-1] and vb[0..n-1] in the frequency domain of 2 numbers A and B that we can add, substract or multiply. For example, let vc[i]=va[i]*vb[i] for i=0 to n-1, if we do an IFFT with the values vc[i], we get C=IFFT(vc[0..n-1])=A*B. Can we divide or compute remainders

Re: Mersenne: Another cash prize for Mersenne testing?

2002-03-27 Thread Michael Kilfoyle
Now if we could get all the furbies linked together with the flashing eyes for RF we might have something.// LOL paul landon wrote: Whilst I was surfing I came across the word Mersenne, even though I didn't search for it. After I had finished laughing, I had to tell you people. The Hack

Re: Mersenne: Another cash prize for Mersenne testing?

2002-03-27 Thread Michael Kilfoyle
Now if we could get all the furbies linked to gether with the flashing eyes for RF we might have something.// LOL paul landon wrote: Whilst I was surfing I came across the word Mersenne, even though I didn't search for it. After I had finished laughing, I had to tell you people. The