LTM book Progress

From: Tom St Denis (tomstdenis_at_iahu.ca)
Date: 05/30/03 

Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 02:48:53 GMT

I've beefed up the LTM [LibTomMath] book considerably over the past few
days. Mostly I've re-written huge parts of chapter 6 [multiplication
and squaring] and I've added slightly to ch7 [the new DR reduction algo
I added].

For those that have been keeping tabs you're free to review the latest
copy...

http://iahu.ca:8080/tommath.pdf [about 1MB]
http://iahu.ca:8080/tommath.pdf.bz2 [about 700KB]
http://iahu.ca:8080/tommath.ps.bz2 [about 475KB]

I'm on a 20KB/sec upstream modem so judge for yourself which file you
want to get [though there isn't enough traffic to cause any serious
problems].

The book is about 188 pages of actual content [222 if you count all the
formatting and such] and seeing how this is a draft I'd strongly urge
against printing it off....

Anyways, if you wanted to learn how bignum math works this text may
help. It covers quite a bit already even though the draft is incomplete
[three chapters left to write].

Please keep that in mind though. This is a work in progress and very
rough draft. I've been adding about 6 pages per day [average] for
nearly a month straight [7 days a week] so I'm absolutely certain there
are typos, incorrect statements and grammatical nonsensicals within the
text. For the most part I hope it makes sense and the algorithms are
correct [they're based on the working LTM source code :-)] just keep
this in mind....

Enjoy,
Tom