Discussion related to cado-nfs

[Emmanuel Thomé <emmanuel.thome@inria.fr>]

Yes.
Actually log(p) would be less misleading than degree(p)...
E.


On February 3, 2018 11:21:24 AM GMT+01:00, Pierrick Gaudry 
<pierrick.gaudry@loria.fr> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>From an old README file I have somewhere in an old directory:
>
>    Factor base file format:
>    ------------------------
>
>    An entry is of the form:
>
>    q:n1,n2: r1,r2,r3
>
>    In the (frequent) case where n1,n2=1,0 this can be abridged with:
>
>    q: r1,r2,r3
>
>Here, q is a irreducible or a irreducible power, ri are the
>corresponding
>roots and the contribution that must be subtracted at these positions
>is
>    (n1-n2)*degree(p) (assuming smaller powers of this irreducible have
>  alredy been taken care of).  By position, we mean (a,b) such that a -
>    b*ri = 0 mod q.
>
> The roots ri must be sorted in lexicographical order.  If a root ri is
>    greater or equal to q, it means that this is a projective root:
>    subtracting q gives a root for the reciprocal polynomial (or
>    equivalently, (1:(ri-q)) is the projective root).
>
> It is allowed to have several lines with the same q, but there must be
>    only one line for a given (q,n1,n2) triple.
>
>Hopefully this is still valid in the version you are using.
>
>Regards,
>Pierrick
>
>On Sat, Feb 03, 2018 at 01:50:46PM +0530, Pankaj Charpe wrote:
>> Hi,
>>  In factor base construction of cado-nfs we have this entry,
>>                             Factor Base format: q:n1,n2:r1,r2,r3
>> 
>> Can you please explain me what is these n1 and n2 ?. I will be very
>> thankful to you.
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks & Regards
>> Pankaj charpe
>
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