Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Jan Burse Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:39:22 +0200 Organization: albasani.net Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: news.albasani.net mYx0bCUkV5qSIkgV/+EGu2GuSH4Ud5pzHlLRs3N5rAj64DVeBBtq71+0yvOg4uYVBrqKXmVh2gB5SV1L0UN+L3MUBdF5PiQLqehY7jcrbPRzivm15gYVd604QunsW369 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 22:39:17 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: news.albasani.net; logging-data="nqjs/46lTU7Coku91DrT/ZhLHjj26XqogFFRyDbQACNR3zd+R93Yy1vJ12d4JqxyXiYJvPYt42iYZNXuS3SNTXXUV5NaPe6efKYP2TRiyIggl4yj+yQWO9ndoWX197bv"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@albasani.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:13.0) Gecko/20120604 Firefox/13.0 SeaMonkey/2.10 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:BxjOt1inJgymeWAb/qaPqS2yEhg= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:15130 Jan Burse schrieb: > > x^(2*n) = (x^n)^2 > > x^(2*n+1) = (x^n)^2*x Better I guess: x^(2*n) = (x^2)^n x^(2*n+1) = (x^2)^n*x