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From: Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Troll Parade Closing, Award Ceremony
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 08:25:23 -0400
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On 6/10/2012 6:31 AM, Jan Burse wrote:
> Jan Burse schrieb:
>> Dear All,
>>
>> What is your favorite algorithm to compute the n-th Square of
>> a BigInteger, i.e.
>>
>>     Given: x, n
>>     Compute: y = max { z | z^n =< x }
>>
>> Bye
>
> I guess it is time to close the troll parade. The
> appearance of trolls was in the following order:
>
>     1. markspace <-@.>
>     2. Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>
>     3. Leif Roar Moldskred <leifm@dimnakorr.com>
>     4. Joshua Cranmer <Pidgeot18@verizon.invalid>

You forgot:
0. Jan Burse <janburse@fastmail.fm>

[Sorry, you made it way too easy].
-- 
Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not 
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