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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by ISL on Friday July 31, 2020 @12:51PM (#24010579)
Is that last sentence provable? If so, that's an impressively-strong statement (to state that the provably-most-efficient mathematical-computation circuit designs are known).
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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by baybal2 on Friday July 31, 2020 @12:53PM (#24010617)
Well, at least for reasonably big integers, it is.

There might be faster algos for super long integers, or minute implementation differences that add/subtract few kilogates.

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Re:Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for m... by TomVDB on Friday July 31, 2020 @01:36PM (#24011216)
> Well, at least for reasonably big integers, it is.

Big integer calculations are the bread and butter of GPUs now?

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