Function Documentation/floor for a square root funciton
DUDE man
dude_m at hotmail.com
Mon Mar 14 19:44:39 CET 2005
Hi all,
I had a quick question. I'm writing a quadratic sieve program for an
encryption class. It's a rather large number, hopefully the team didn't pick
their primes well (fingers crossed). Anyhow, I need to do a floor of the
square root function. I was trying to figure out which mpz function to use
for it. I was looking at the sqrt.c file and at the top it says
mpz_sqrt(root, u) -- floor(sqrt(U)). So does that mean I'm supposed to call
mpz_sqrt twice, ones for the first, the second time to get the floor, I'm
sorry but the documentation I'm finding (which I hope I'm just dumb and not
seeing it) seems fairly weak in the sense that it's not in-depth or existant
in some cases.
Any help would be appreciated,
Evan
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