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From: | Jim Meyering |
Subject: | Re: Faster algorithm for factor? |
Date: | Thu, 08 Jan 2004 00:59:02 +0100 |
Bruno Haible <address@hidden> wrote: >> Are there any plans to implement faster algorithms in factor? > > I'd suggest to replace 'factor' with the gmp-ecm program from Paul > Zimmermann. It's one of the leading integer factorization programs and > is already under GPL. > http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/records/ecmnet.html > http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/records/ecm-5.0.3.html I like that idea. Thanks! I've always wanted factor to accept arbitrarily large inputs. Patches welcome :-)
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