Jacobi/Legendre/Kronecker
Torbjorn Granlund
tg at gmplib.org
Mon Dec 17 17:05:35 CET 2012
nisse at lysator.liu.se (Niels Möller) writes:
I haven't thought about the interface issues, I guess public functions
with single limb (or unsigned long) inputs would make sense for both
jacobi and gcd.
It is a pity people will need to locate mpz_kronecker_ui when they want
a plain Legendre symbol. I don't think the Legendre -> Jacobi ->
Kronecker generalisations are so widely know that people will
automatically look for functions with the other names.
--
Torbjörn
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