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From: cme@cloud9.UUCP (Carl Ellison)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,sci.math,comp.arch
Subject: Re: High Performance Mathematical Sieve
Summary: what's a trial?
Keywords: Diophantine equations, factoring, primes, special purpose hardware.
Message-ID: <2354@cloud9.UUCP>
Date: 9 Nov 88 19:30:04 GMT
References: <179@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>
Organization: Stratus Computer, Inc., Marlboro, MA
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In article <179@cs-spool.calgary.UUCP>, hermann@cpsc.ucalgary.ca (Michael Hermann) writes:
> 
>   [ bulk of advertisement deleted ]
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>     PERFORMANCE:
>           Initial  board  configuration  with  single  Sieve
>           Engine chip:
>               160 million trials per second (MTS).

OK -- I'll bite ---


    What's a trial?

    Is this a trial division ?

    Is it an addition -- and if so, how many hundreds of decimal digits?


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