Re: Jacobi Symbol

2017-08-22 Thread paul zimmermann
Dear Niels, > I'm attaching my draft paper explaining the algorithm used in GMP. This > was written back in 2010, do you know if the algorithm has been > published elsewhere in the meantime? The trick (i.e., using part (v) and > (vi) of Proposition 1) dates back at least to work by Schönhag

Re: Jacobi Symbol

2017-08-21 Thread Torbjörn Granlund
paul zimmermann writes: 15.3.5 Jacobi Symbol [This section is obsolete. The current Jacobi code actually uses a very efficient algorithm.] I just checked the latest daily snapshot, it is still the same. When will this section be updated

Jacobi Symbol

2017-08-21 Thread paul zimmermann
Hi, since GMP 5.1.0, i.e., 8 versions of GMP, the documentation says: 15.3.5 Jacobi Symbol [This section is obsolete. The current Jacobi code actually uses a very efficient algorithm.] I just checked the latest daily snapshot, it is still the same