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Re: Algorithm for cancelling common factors between two lists of multiplicands

by Anonymous Monk
on Aug 09, 2005 at 12:55 UTC ( [id://482192]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Algorithm for cancelling common factors between two lists of multiplicands

Seems to me that this problem requires you to factor numbers. Factoring numbers is considered to be a really hard problem - it's what public key encryption makes secure. Noone knows a fast way to factor numbers (well, maybe someone does, but then, they have kept it a secret), so if you are going to have big numbers, the factoring will be the bottleneck.
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Re^2: Algorithm for cancelling common factors between two lists of multiplicands
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 09, 2005 at 13:41 UTC

    There's big and big. Factoring values of a few thousand or even a thousand million isn't so hard.

    Cryptography uses numbers much, much bigger than these.


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