LibBF – a small library to handle arbitrary precision floating point numbers

Re:LibBF – a small library to handle arbitrary precision flo... by jcranmer on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @07:42PM (#16533478)

MathWorld is often a decent resource for finding this kind of information: <http://mathworld.wolfram.com/DecimalPeriod.html>, but it's often difficult to arrive at those pages if you don't have any idea where to start.

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Re:LibBF – a small library to handle arbitrary precision flo... by danbruc on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @08:02PM (#16533556)

I certainly also looked through MathWorld but I failed to make some - in hindsight - rather obvious connections or did not pay enough attention. I certainly knew what the discrete logarithm problem is and that it is hard but I did not realize until a few minutes ago that finding the multiplicative order is just that only with a different name. And now being aware of that the MathWorld article spells exactly this out in a way that it seems impossible to miss.

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Re:LibBF – a small library to handle arbitrary precision flo... by yorwba on Tuesday March 06, 2018 @07:46PM (#16533498)

There's an extra > at the end of your link.

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