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Re: Log base 2 of large integers

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From Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net>
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Subject Re: Log base 2 of large integers
Date Wed, 13 Aug 2014 19:15:31 +0300
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Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid>:

> MK Shen used to hang out on the sci.crypt newsgroup, so we're probably
> talking "cryptographically large" rather than "engineeringly large".

I'm thinking we're talking about philosophically large. Those kinds of
numbers are unwieldy from all angles, including cryptography.


Marko

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Log base 2 of large integers Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2014-08-13 15:05 +0200
  Re: Log base 2 of large integers Skip Montanaro <skip@pobox.com> - 2014-08-13 08:16 -0500
    Re: Log base 2 of large integers Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2014-08-13 15:50 +0200
  Re: Log base 2 of large integers Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-08-13 23:32 +1000
    Re: Log base 2 of large integers Mok-Kong Shen <mok-kong.shen@t-online.de> - 2014-08-13 15:46 +0200
      Re: Log base 2 of large integers Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-13 17:00 +0300
      Re: Log base 2 of large integers Andrew Jaffe <a.h.jaffe@gmail.com> - 2014-08-13 15:06 +0100
    Re: Log base 2 of large integers Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-08-13 16:17 +0200
  Re: Log base 2 of large integers Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-08-13 15:58 +0200
    Re: Log base 2 of large integers Peter Pearson <ppearson@nowhere.invalid> - 2014-08-13 16:12 +0000
      Re: Log base 2 of large integers Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2014-08-13 19:15 +0300
      Re: Log base 2 of large integers Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-08-14 02:18 +1000
      Re: Log base 2 of large integers Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2014-08-13 12:13 -0600
  Re:Log base 2 of large integers Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-08-13 10:10 -0400

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