Re: Salamin-Brent algorithm



In article <1182447514.837296.169980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
dgoldsmith_89 <d.l.goldsmith@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

if I can just download say like
the first 2^100 binary digits (or 16^25 hex....

Um, 2^100 digits - where would you put them all? Seriously.

Anyway, no one has computed more than a few billion digits
(or bits, or whatever), which is way less than what you want.

In answer to your first message in this thread,
I think you don't know what the big-oh notation means.

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Gerry Myerson (gerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) (i -> u for email)
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