Re: sockets: why doesn't my connect() block?

2007-11-19 Thread Justin Kwok
On Nov 19, 4:45 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > a better question is why you are not using higher level libraries, > such as twisted I don't know about Mr. 7stud, but when I was doing a networking class, the prof recommended that we use C++ to learn socket programming. Students asked the obvious qu

Re: Efficient (HUGE) prime modulus

2007-11-19 Thread Justin Kwok
For the interested, the algorithm that is most likely being used is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exponentiation_by_squaring If you scroll down, there is a ruby implementation. Combine this with a little bit of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_arithmetic and I wrote a small python function that