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Author mark.dickinson
Recipients fredrikj, mark.dickinson
Date 2008-07-27.06:34:27
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> Would there be any interest in porting these algorithms to C and using
> them in the standard Python long implementation?

Yes, definitely!  Though it depends a little bit how much complication 
is involved.

A subquadratic algorithm for converting strings to longs might also fit 
well here.

Now I'm just waiting for you to propose an implementation of integer 
square root  :-).
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