The official coding period for GSoC begins tomorrow, and I plan to start off with ECM, before beginning with the MPQS implementation. I think it would be better to have both the auxiliary factoring algorithms in hand before I proceed with the MPQS. I spent most of the community bonding…
This week I started working on my GSoC project. Before starting off with the code, I decided to give three to four days understanding Pollard Rho and ECM once again. I was looking up for books in the IIITD library, when I came across Prime Numbers, A Computational Perspective. It…
The Google Summer of Code results came out this week, and I got selected :D. Thanks to lmonade for giving me this amazing opportunity. I would be writing code for FLINT over the summer, mentored by William Hart and Dana Jacobsen. FLINT is a fast number theory library written in…