01.01.2015 Views

Modular Arithmetic and Primality

Modular Arithmetic and Primality

Modular Arithmetic and Primality

SHOW MORE
SHOW LESS

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

⎧⎧ 2(x⋅ ⎣⎣y/2⎦⎦) if y is even<br />

x⋅ y = ⎨⎨<br />

⎩⎩ x + 2(x⋅ ⎣⎣y/2⎦⎦) if y is odd<br />

€<br />

Obvious equality, yet it gives us a divide <strong>and</strong> conquer<br />

opportunity since we halve the size at each step<br />

Prep us for <strong>Modular</strong> exponentiation which uses the same<br />

basic approach

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!