Mersenne: Factoring LL tests
I was reading Fermat's Enigma today and something occurred to me...would it be possible to work with a number quicker if we used a higher base? I.E. Use base 32 instead of base 10? Thus, you're doing less math. Of course, this would have to be in software because the floats can't be in that base. G-Man _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
Re: Mersenne: Factoring LL tests
At 01:10 PM 7/18/99 -0400, Geoffrey Faivre-Malloy wrote: I was reading Fermat's Enigma today and something occurred to me...would it be possible to work with a number quicker if we used a higher base? I.E. Use base 32 instead of base 10? Multiple precision arithmetic operations do that. +--+ | Jud "program first and think later" McCranie | +--+ _ Unsubscribe list info -- http://www.scruz.net/~luke/signup.htm Mersenne Prime FAQ -- http://www.tasam.com/~lrwiman/FAQ-mers
