Re: Naive Square root algorithm for GNFS ?

From: Jean-Luc Cooke (jlcooke_at_engsoc.org)
Date: 03/30/05


Date: 30 Mar 2005 16:53:06 GMT

Michael Amling <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
> What is this an example of? Your sqrtmod(4,5) returns 2 and
> sqrtmod(1, 5) returns 1.
> I think you mean "doh!" and "doh!". If x has no square root modulo m
> in 1..(m-1)/2 then x has no square root in (m+1)/2..m-1 modulo m.

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JLC

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