[sage-support] Re: Solving a^2+n*b^2

2010-02-07 Thread Rolandb
Thanks William, Actually I try to solve it for different x and n. A typical example of (x,n) is: %time bruteforce(7^10*29^5,973) [(3899224, 2437015)] CPU time: 25.88 s, Wall time: 26.12 s Roland On 7 feb, 22:29, William Stein wrote: > On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:35 PM, Rolandb wrote: > > Hi, >

[sage-support] Re: Solving a^2+n*b^2

2010-02-09 Thread Alasdair
Do a google search on "Cornacchia's algorithm". Shouldn't be too hard to program in Sage (if it isn't there already). Alasdair On Feb 8, 4:07 pm, Rolandb wrote: > Thanks William, > > Actually I try to solve it for different x and n. A typical example of > (x,n) is: > > %time > bruteforce(7^10*2

[sage-support] Re: Solving a^2+n*b^2

2010-02-09 Thread Rolandb
Alasdair, Thanks! On 9 feb, 11:54, Alasdair wrote: > Do a google search on "Cornacchia's algorithm".  Shouldn't be too hard > to program in Sage (if it isn't there already). > > Alasdair > > On Feb 8, 4:07 pm, Rolandb wrote: > > > Thanks William, > > > Actually I try to solve it for different x

[sage-support] Re: Solving a^2+n*b^2

2010-02-10 Thread VictorMiller
I'm pretty sure that Cornacchia's algorithm is part of Pari (though I don't remember what the function is called). Victor On Feb 9, 5:54 am, Alasdair wrote: > Do a google search on "Cornacchia's algorithm".  Shouldn't be too hard > to program in Sage (if it isn't there already). > > Alasdair > >