Re: ADA arithmetic

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In article <1993Jul28.170334.1@otago.ac.nz>, simon@otago.ac.nz (The Arch-Devian
t) writes:
> In article <gmacmanus.2.743824190@gandalf.otago.ac.nz>, gmacmanus@gandalf.ota
go.ac.nz (Greg MacManus) writes:
>> How do you implement the numbers then?
>> 
>> 	- Just curious.
> 
> Easy - treat them as variable-length arrays (ie in a record with a default
> discriminant) of 0..9 then treat each term as a coefficient in an polynomial
> evaluated at x=10. As Paul observes, the literature is bulging with nifty
> ways for performing operations on polynomials, and since we don't have to
> generate keys we can get away with defining only three operations - square
> the number, halve it and test for a remainder, and MOD.
> 
Well of course....  now I know why I can't do it....    I don't speak the lingo
I still recon my idea of FTP'ing a package is the best idea.  Is that legal
the fact that we didn't write the arithmetic package shouldn't matter should
it????????
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Paul?  I mean the idea of the assignment is to implement an RSA key thingie so