> From: Yann Forget [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Could you explain this to me ?
I can try. The text below is deliberately informal in style and far from
mathematically rigorous. The mathematicians on the list will have to
forgive me; those who want a more rigorous explanation should be able to
Hi,
Could you explain this to me ?
I am factoring Fermat numbers with ECM.
Is this relevant in this case ?
Thanks in advance,
Yann
> Paul Leyland said:
As long as the coefficients of the curve and the starting point are
recorded, we can re-run exactly the same computation, with the small
primes
