Large number multiplication

Nobody nobody at nowhere.com
Wed Jul 6 20:33:06 EDT 2011


On Wed, 06 Jul 2011 22:05:52 +0200, Christian Heimes wrote:

> On the other hand FFT are based on e, complex numbers or
> trigonometric functions (=floats), which mean you'll get rounding errors.

It's possible to perform a DFT over any field. Schoenhage-Strassen uses
a DFT over a finite field (integers modulo N); it doesn't use floats.




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