Re: Mersenne: Head's algorithm for multiplying mod n

[Pierre Abbat]

> Limbs? It is good to know that the world has many different literal meanings
> in many languages for "bits" - variety is good for us all. (The French word
> for "buffer" is also, I seem to remember, rather amusing).

"Limb" is the term used in gmp for a digit in a large base (such as 2147483648)
in which a number is represented in a multiple-precision package.

phma
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