Big integer division efficiency

[Paul Leyland]

On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 16:39, Paul Leyland wrote:

> Your information is out of date and incorrect.

So was mine  8-(

> More recently (4 September 2001 to be precise) the 135-digit cofactor of
> 2,1606L was completed by QS.  Both MPQS and SIQS sievers were used (SIQS
> by Sam Wagstaff; MPQS by Arjen Lenstra, Alec Muffett and myself), each
> using 3 large primes.

I inadvertently omitted Bruce Dodson from the list of people who
contributed MPQS effort to the factorizations.   Sorry, Bruce, if you're
reading this thread.


Paul

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