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Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger

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glen herrmannsfeldt schrieb:
> Well, there is a standard method, that traces back to the
> Chinese Remainder Theorem and works off the binary representation.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_exponentiation
>
> In some cases it isn't quite as good as factoring the power, but
> mostly close enough.

How do you factor the exponent if it is not
a constant you know in advance? Question is
a function where:

    Given: x, n
    Compute: y = max { z | z^n =< x }

So both x and n are parameters of the functions.
The code I am seeking should take x and n
variably.

Bye

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Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-08 21:03 +0200
  Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-06-08 13:34 -0700
    Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-08 22:36 +0200
      Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-08 13:55 -0700
        Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-06-08 21:06 +0000
          Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-08 23:21 +0200
        Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-08 23:34 +0200
          Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-08 14:43 -0700
            Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-08 23:47 +0200
              Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-08 23:47 +0200
              Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-08 14:55 -0700
                Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-09 00:00 +0200
                Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-08 15:10 -0700
                Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-09 00:12 +0200
                Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-08 15:18 -0700
            Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-06-08 22:59 +0000
              Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-09 01:05 +0200
            Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-09 01:00 +0200
              Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-08 16:15 -0700
                Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-09 01:51 +0200
                Re: Quick n-th Root of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-09 02:32 +0200
  Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-08 23:00 +0200
  Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-08 17:04 -0400
    Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-08 23:19 +0200
      Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Eric Sosman <esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid> - 2012-06-08 17:40 -0400
        Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-08 23:43 +0200
          Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-06-08 14:52 -0700
            Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-09 00:30 +0200
              Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-06-08 23:05 +0000
    Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-11 14:53 +0200
  Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-08 15:32 -0700
    Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-09 00:37 +0200
      Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-09 00:39 +0200
      Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-06-08 23:34 +0000
        Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-09 01:44 +0200
          Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-06-09 01:06 +0000
    Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2012-06-08 23:25 +0000
      Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-09 01:29 +0200
        Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-09 01:29 +0200
    Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-17 15:00 +0200
  Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com> - 2012-06-09 08:42 -0500
    Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-09 16:54 +0200
      Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-09 17:56 +0200
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        Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger markspace <-@.> - 2012-06-09 11:50 -0700
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              Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-09 21:29 +0200
        Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-06-09 21:27 -0400
          Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-10 12:08 +0200
            Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid> - 2012-06-10 08:23 -0400
          Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-10 13:31 +0200
            Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Wanja Gayk <brixomatic@yahoo.com> - 2012-06-17 15:11 +0200
        Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-10 12:04 +0200
      Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-06-16 17:45 -0700
        Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-17 03:17 +0200
        Re: Quick n-th Square of BigInteger Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm> - 2012-06-17 03:38 +0200
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