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M.I.R.A.C.L. - Multiprecision Integer and Rational Arithmetic C Library _______________________________________________________________________ M. Scott ABSTRACT: A portable C library is described which implements multi-precision integer and rational data-types, and provides the routines to perform basic arithmetic on them. Certain useful number-theoretic routines are also included in the package. 1. INTRODUCTION: Conventional computer arithmetic facilities as provided by most computer language compilers usually provide one or two floating-point data types (e.g. single and double precision) to represent all the real numbers, together with one or more integer types to represent whole numbers. These built-in data-types are closely related to the underlying computer architecture, which is sensibly designed to work quickly with large amounts of small numbers, rather than slowly with small amounts of large numbers (given a fixed memory allocation). Floating-point allows a relatively small binary number (e.g. 32 bits) to represent real numbers to an adequate precision (e.g. 7 decimal places) over a large dynamic range. Integer types allow small whole numbers to be represented directly by their binary equivalent, or in 2's complement form if negative. Nevertheless this conventional approach to computer arithmetic has several disadvantages. (1) Floating-point and Integer data-types are representationly incompatible. Note that the set of integers, although infinite, is a 1 subset of the rationals (i.e. fractions), which is in turn a subset of the reals. Thus every integer has an equivalent floating-point representation. Unfortunately these two representations will in general be different. For example a small positive whole number will be represented by its binary equivalent as an integer, and as separated mantissa and exponent as a floating-point. This implies the need for conversion routines, to convert from one form to the other. (2) Most rational numbers can not be expressed exactly (e.g. 1/3). Indeed the floating-point system can only express exactly those rationals whose denominators are multiples of the factors of the underlying radix. For example our familiar decimal system can only represent exactly those rational numbers whose denominators are multiples of 2 and 5; 1/20 is 0.05 exactly, 1/21 is .0476190476190... (3) Rounding in floating-point is base-dependant and a source of obscure errors. (4) The fact that the size of integer and floating-point data types are dictated by the computer architecture, defeats the efforts of language designers to keep their languages portable. (5) Numbers can only be represented to a fixed machine-dependent precision. In many applications this can be a crippling disadvantage, for example in the new and growing field of Public-Key cryptography. (6) Base-dependent phenomena cannot easily be studied. For example it would be difficult to access a particular digit of a decimal number, as represented by a traditional integer data-type. 2 Herein is described a set of standard C routines which manipulate multi-precision rational numbers directly, with multi-precision integers as a compatible subset. Approximate real arithmetic can also be performed. 2. NUMBER REPRESENTATION The two new data-types are called "big" and "flash". The former is used to store multiprecision integers, and the latter stores multiprecision fractions as numerator and denominator in "floating- slash" form. Both take the form of a fixed length array of integers, with sign and length information encoded in the first element, and the data itself in subsequent elements. Both new types can be introduced into the syntax of the 'C' language by the 'C' statements typedef int* big; typedef int* flash; Now 'big' and 'flash' variables can be declared just like any built- in data type, e.g. big x,y[10],z[10][10]; Note that the user of these data-types is not concerned with this internal representation; the library routines allow "big" and "flash" numbers to be manipulated directly. The structure of "big" and "flash" numbers is illustrated in figure (1) 3 x[0] x[1] x[2] x[n] x[max] ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │s 0 n│ │ LSW │ │ │ .......... │ MSW │ │ 0 │ .............. │ 0 │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ x[0] x[1] x[2] x[n] x[n+1] x[n+2] x[n+d] x[max] ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ ┌─────┐ │s d n│ │ LSW │ │ │ ... │ MSW │ │ LSW │ │ │ ... │ MSW │ .. │ 0 │ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ └─────┘ <------- numerator ------> / <------ denominator -----> Figure (1): Structure of "big" and "flash" data-types, where s is the sign of the number, n and d are the lengths of the numerator and denominator respectively, and LSW and MSW mean 'Least significant word' and 'Most significant word' These structures combine ease of use with representational efficiency. A denominator of length zero (d=0), implies an actual denominator of one; and similarily a numerator of length zero (n=0) implies a numerator of one. Zero itself is uniquely defined as the number whose first element is zero (i.e. n=d=0). Note that the slash in the 'flash' data-type is not in a fixed position, and may "float" depending on the relative size of numerator and denominator. A "flash" number is manipulated by splitting it up into separate "big" numerator and denominator components. A "big" number is manipulated by extracting and operating on each of its component integer elements. To avoid possible confusion with the internal sign bit, the numbers in each element are limited to a somewhat smaller range than that of the full word-length, e.g. 0 to 16383 (= 2^14 -1) on a 16-bit micro-computer. 4 When the system is initialised the user specifies the fixed number of words (or bytes) to be assigned to all "big" or "flash" variables, and the number base to be used. Any base can be used, up to a maximum MAXBASE which is dependant on the wordlength of the computer used. If requested to use a small base b, the system will, for optimal efficiency, actually use base bⁿ , where n is the largest integer such that bⁿ fits in a single computer word. The encoding of the sign and numerator and denominator size information into the first word is possible, as the C language has standard constructs for bit manipulation. On a 16-bit computer the maximum number of words in each 'big' or 'flash' variable is limited to 128, the equivalent of about 500 decimal digits. On a 32-bit computer there is, effectively, no limit. Normally in flash arithmetic full precision is always used. However the internal global variable 'workprec' can be used to temporarily reduce the working precision. This is useful when using Newton's method for the calculation of roots and certain elementary functions (Scott 1988). 3. AN EXAMPLE 5 /* Program to calculate factorials. */ #include <stdio.h> #include "miracl.h" /* include big number system */ main() { /* calculate factorial of number */ big nf; /* declare "big" variable nf */ int n; mirsys(5000,10); /* initialise system to base 10, 5000 digits per "big" */ nf=mirvar(1); /* initialise "big" variable nf=1 */ printf("factorial program\n"); printf("input number n= \n"); scanf("%d",&n); getchar(); while (n>1) premult(nf,n--,nf); /* nf=n!=n*(n-1)*(n-2)*....3*2*1 */ printf("n!= \n"); otnum(nf,stdout); /* output result */ } This program can be used to quickly calculate and print out 1000! (a 2568 digit number) in about 12 seconds on a VAX11/780, a task first performed "by H.S. Uhler using a desk calculator and much patience over a period of several years" (Knuth 1973). Many other example programs are described in Appendix IV. 4. THE USER INTERFACE Any program that uses the MIRACL system must have an '#include "miracl.h"' statement. This tells the compiler to include the 'C' header file "miracl.h" with the main program source file before proceeding with the compilation. This file (Appendix II) contains declarations of all the MIRACL routines available to the user and permits access to some global variables. The small sub-header file 'mirdef.h' contains hardware-specific details, other user-tailorable details, and some useful general purpose definitions. 6 In the main program the MIRACL system must be initialized by a call to the routine mirsys, which sets the number base and the maximum mirsys size of the 'big' and 'flash' variables. It also initializes the random number system, and creates several workspace 'big' variables its own use. Also initialized is the relatively sophisticated error tracing system which is integrated with the MIRACL package. Whenever an error is detected the sequence of routine calls down to the routine which generated the error is reported, as well as the error itself. A typical error message might be MIRACL error from routine powmod called from prime called from your program Raising integer to a negative power Such an error report facilitates debugging, and certainly assisted me during the development of these routines. An associated variable TRACER, initialised to OFF, if set by the user to ON, will cause a trace of the program's progress through the MIRACL routines to be output to the screen. Every 'big' or 'flash' variable in the users program must be initialized by a call to the routine mirvar, which also allows the mirvar variable to be given an initial integer value. The full set of arithmetic and number-theoretic routines declared in "miracl.h" may be used on these variables. Full flexibility is (almost always) allowed in parameter usage with these routines. For example the call multiply(x,y,z), multiplies the 'big' variable x by multiply(x,y,z) the 'big' variable y to give the result as 'big' variable z. Equally valid would be multiply(x,y,x), multiply(y,y,x), or multiply(x,x,x). multiply(x,y,x) multiply(y,y,x) multiply(x,x,x) This last simply squares x. Note that the first parameters are by 7 convention always the inputs to the routines. Routines are provided not only to allow arithmetic on 'big' and 'flash' numbers, but also to allow these variables to perform arithmetic with the built-in integer and double precision data-types. Conversion routines are also provided to convert from one type to another. For details of each routine see the relevant documentation in Appendix III and the example programs of Appendix IV. Input and output is handled by the routines innum, otnum, cinnum and innum otnum cinnum cotnum. The first two use the fixed number base specified by the user cotnum in the initial call of mirsys. The latter pair work in conjunction mirsys with the global variable IOBASE which can be assigned dynamically by the user. A simple rule is that if the program is CPU bound, or involves changes of base, then set the base initially to MAXBASE and use cinnum and cotnum. If on the other hand the program is I/O bound, cinnum cotnum or needs access to individual digits of numbers (using getdig, putdig getdig putdig and numdig), use innum and otnum. numdig innum otnum Numbers to bases up to 256 can be represented. Numbers up to base 60 use as many of the symbols 0-9, A-Z, a-x as necessary. If the base is greater than 60, the symbols used are the ascii codes 0-255. A base of 256 is useful when it is necessary to interpret a line of text as a large integer, as is the case for the Public Key Cryptography programs described in Appendix IV. Rational numbers may be input using either a radix point (e.g 0.3333) or as a fraction (e.g. 1/3). Either form can be used on output by setting the global variable POINT=ON or =OFF. Wraparound on output 8 can similarily be selected by setting WRAP=ON or OFF. Input can be taken from a string instead of from a file or I/O device, by copying the string to the global array IBUFF[] immediately before calling innum or cinnum. This method can be used to set 'big' or 'flash' innum cinnum numbers to large constant values. Similarly by setting the global variable STROUT to TRUE, output can be redirected to the global array OBUFF[], instead of going directly to a file or I/O device. Subsequent formatting can then take place before actual output. 5. THE IMPLEMENTATION No great originality is claimed for the routines used to implement arithmetic on the 'big' data-type. The algorithms used are faithful renditions of those described by Knuth (1981 $4.3.1). However some effort was made to optimise the implementation for speed. At the heart of the time-consuming multiply and divide routines there is, typically, a need need to multiply together a digit from each operand, add in a 'carry' from a previous operation, and then separate the total into a digit of the result, and a 'carry' for the next operation. To illustrate this consider this base 10 multiplication: 8723536221 x 9 ----------- To correctly process the column with the '5' in it, we multiply 5x9=45, add in the 'carry' from the previous column (say a 3), to give 48, keep the '8' as the result for this column, and carry the '4' to the next column. 9 This basic primitive operation is essentially the calculation of the quotient (a*b+c)/m and its remainder. For the example above a=5, b=9, c=3 and m=10. This operation has suprisingly universal application, and since it lies at the innermost loop of the arithmetic algorithms, its efficient implementation is essential. There are three main difficulties with a high-level language general base implementation of this MAD (Multiply, Add and Divide) operation. (1) It will be slow. (2) Quotient and remainder are not available simultaneously as a result of the divide operation. Therefore the calculation must be essentially done twice, once to get the quotient, and once for the remainder. (3) Although the operation results in two single digit quantities, the intermediate product (a*b+c) may be double-length. Indeed such a Multiply-Add and Divide routine can be used on all occasions when a double-length quantity would be required by the basic arithmetic algorithms. Note that the 'C' language is blessed with a 'long' integer data-type which may in fact be capable of temporarily storing this product. For these reasons it is best to implement this critical operation in the assembly language of the computer used, although a portable 'C' version is possible. At machine-code level a transitory double-length result can often be dealt with, even if the 'C' long data-type is not 10 itself double-length (as is the case for the 'C' compiler used on the VAX11/780, for which ints and longs are both 32-bit quantities). For further details see the documentation in the file 'bnmuldv.any'. A criticism of the MIRACL system might be its use of fixed length arrays for its 'big' and 'flash' data types. This was done to avoid the difficult and time-consuming problems of memory allocation and garbage collection which would be needed by a variable-length representation. However it does mean that when doing a calculation on 'big' integers that the results and all intermediate calculations must be less than or equal to the fixed size initially specified to mirsys. mirsys In practise most numbers in a stable integer calculation are of more or less the same size, except when two are multiplied together in which case a double-length intermediate product is created. This is usually immediately reduced again by a subsequent divide operation. A classic example of this would be in the Pollard-Brent factoring program (Appendix IV and Scott 1986a). Note that this is another manifestation, on a macro level, of the problem mentioned in point (3) above. It would be a pity to have to specify each variable to be twice as large as necessary, just to cope with these occasional intermediate products. For this reason a special Multiply, Add and Divide routine mad has been included in the mad MIRACL library. It has proved very useful when implementing large programs (like the Pomerance-Silverman-Montgomery factoring program, Appendix IV) on computers with limited memory. 11 As well as the basic arithmetic operations, routines are also provided: (a) to generate and test 'big' prime numbers, using a probabilistic primality test (Knuth 1981 $4.5.4) (b) to generate 'big' and 'flash' random numbers, based on the subtractive method (Knuth 1981 $3.6) (c) to calculate powers and roots (d) to implement both the normal and extended euclidean GCD algorithm (Knuth 1981 $4.5.2) 6. FLOATING-SLASH NUMBERS The straightforward way to represent rational numbers is as reduced fractions, as a numerator and denominator with all common factors cancelled out. These numbers can then be added, subtracted, multiplied and divided in the obvious way, and the result reduced by dividing both numerator and denominator by their Greatest Common Divisor. An efficient GCD subroutine, using Lehmers modification of the classical euclidean algorithm for multi-precision numbers (Knuth 1981), is included in the MIRACL package. An alternative way to represent rationals would be as a finite continued fraction (Knuth 1981, $4.5.2). Every rational number {p/q} can be written as 12 p - = a0 + 1 q -------------------------------- a1 + 1 ---------------------------- a2 + 1 ---------------------- + .. + .. + 1 ---- an or more elegantly as {p/q} = [a0/a1/a2/..../an], where the ai are positive integers, usually quite small. For example {277/642} = [0/2/3/6/1/3/3] Note that the ai elements of the above continued fraction representation are easily found as the quotients generated as a by- product when the euclidean GCD algorithm is applied to p and q. As we are committed to fixed length representation of rationals, a problem arises when the result of some operation exceeds this fixed length. There is a necessity for some scheme of truncation, or rounding. While there is no obvious way to truncate a large fraction, it is a simple matter to truncate the continued fraction representation. The resulting, smaller, fraction is called a best rational approximation, or a convergent, to the original fraction. Consider truncating {277/642} = [0/2/3/6/1/3/3]. Simply drop the last element from the CF representation, giving [0/2/3/6/1/3] = {85/197}, 13 which is a very close approximation to {277/642} (error = 0.0018%). Chopping more terms from the CF expansion gives the successive convergents as {22/51}, {19/44}, {3/7}, {1/2}, {0/1}. As the fractions get smaller, the error increases. Obviously the truncation rule for a computer implemention should be to chose the biggest convergent that fits the computer representation. The type of rounding described above is also called 'Mediant rounding'. If {p/q} and {r/s} are two neighbouring representable slash numbers astride a gap, then their mediant is the unrepresentable {(p+r)/(q+s)}. All larger fractions between {p/q} and the mediant will round to {p/q}, and those between {r/s} and the mediant will round to {r/s}. The mediant itself rounds to the 'simpler' of {p/q} and {r/s}. This is theoretically a very good way to round, much better than the rather arbitrary and base-dependent methods used in floating-point arithmetic, and is the method used here. The full theoretical basis of floating-slash arithmetic is described in detail by Matula & Kornerup (1985). It should be noted that our 'flash' representation is in fact a cross between the fixed- and floating-slash systems analysed by Matula & Kornerup, as our slash can only float between words, and not between bits. However the characteristics of the 'flash' data-type will tend to those of floating-slash, as the precision is increased. The MIRACL routine round implements mediant rounding. If the result round of an arithmetic operation is the fraction {p/q}, then the euclidean GCD algorithm is applied as before to p and q. However this time the 14 objective is not to use the algorithm to calculate the GCD per se, but to use its quotients to build successive convergents to {p/q}. This process is stopped when the next convergent is too large to fit the 'flash' representation. The complete algorithm is given below (Kornerup & Matula 1983) Given p>=0 and q>=1 b(-2) = p p(-2) = 0 q(-2) = 1 b(-1) = q p(-1) = 1 q(-1) = 0 Now for i=0,1,.... and for b(i-1) > 0 , find the quotient a(i) and remainder b(i) when b(i-2) is divided by b(i-1), such that b(i) =-a(i).b(i-1) + b(i-2) Then calculate p(i) = a(i).p(i-1) + p(i-2) q(i) = a(i).q(i-1) + q(i-2) Stop when {p(i)/q(i)} is to big to fit the 'flash' representation, and take {p(i-1)/q(i-1)} as the rounded result. If applied to {277/642}, this process will give the same sequence of convergents as stated earlier. Since this rounding procedure must be applied to the result of each arithmetic operation, and since it is potentially rather slow, a lot 15 of effort has been made to optimize its implementation. Lehmer's idea of operating only with the most significant piece of each number for as long as possible (Knuth 1981) is used, so that for most of the iterations only single-precision arithmetic is needed. Special care is taken to avoid the rounded result overshooting the limits of the 'flash' representation (Scott 1986b). The application of the basic arithmetic routines to the calculation of elementary functions such as log(x), exp(x), sin(x), cos(x), tan(x) etc., is described in Scott (1988). In many cases the result given by a program can be guaranteed to be exact. This can be checked by testing the global variable EXACT, which is initialised to TRUE and is only set to FALSE if rounding takes place. 7. SOME RESULTS The MIRACL library has been installed and tested on a VAX11/780, using Digital's own C compiler, on an IBM PC, using (amongst others) the Microsoft V5.0, the Mark Williams V2.0, Zorland V1.1, Aztec V3.4 and Borlands Turbo C V1.0 compilers, on an Acorn Archimedes using the Norcroft ARM C V1.54A, and on an Apple Macintosh, using the Megamax compiler. The only necessary changes required are to the 'mirdef.h' header file. Special assembly language versions of the critical muldiv function for these implementations are given in the file 'bnmuldv.any', together with a portable 'C' version. Many example programs are described in Appendix IV. Six different 16 factoring programs are included. The biggest and most powerful of these is the Pomerance-Silverman-Montgomery algorithm (Pomerance 1985, Silverman 1987) which factored F7 = 2^128 -1 = 340282366920938463463374607431768211457 in less than 45 minutes, running on an IBM PC-AT micro-computer. When this number was first factored, it took 90 minutes on an IBM 360 mainframe (Morrison & Brillhart 1975), albeit using a somewhat inferior algorithm. Another program implements Lenstra's recently discovered Elliptic Curve method (Montgomery 1987). Two Public-Key cryptography systems, whose strength appears to depend on the difficulty of factorisation, are given. The first is the classic RSA system (Rivest, Shamir & Adleman 1978). This is fast to encode a message, but painfully slow at decoding. A much faster, but less tried and tested, approach is due to Okamato (1986). A disadvantage of this method is that the encoded text is somewhat bigger than the input source. For both methods the keys are constructed from 'strong' primes (Gordon 1984), to improve security. Several programs demonstrate the use of 'flash' variables. One gives an implementation of Guassian elimination to solve a set of linear equations, involving notoriously ill-conditioned Hilbert matrices. Others show how rational arithmetic can be used to approximate real arithmetic, in, for example the calculation of roots and pi. The former program detected an error in the value for the square root of 5 given in Knuth (1981) appendix A. The correct value is 17 2.23606 79774 99789 69640 91736 68731 27623 54406 _ The error is in the tenth last digit, which is a 2, and not a 1. The roots program runs particularly fast when calculating the square roots of single precision integers, as a simple form of continued fraction generator can be used (Scott 1987a). In one test the golden ratio was calculated to 100,000 decimal places in 3 hours of CPU time on a VAX11/780. The 'pi' program was used to calculate pi correct to 1000 decimal places, taking about 6 minutes of CPU time on the VAX to do so. 8. CRITICISM and FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS A disadvantage of using a 'flash' type of variable to approximate real arithmetic is the non-uniformity in gap-size between representable values (Matula & Kornerup 1985). To illustrate this consider a floating-slash system which is constrained to have the product of numerator and denominator less than 256. All representable values in the range 0-1 are given in Appendix I. Observe that the first representable fraction less than {1/1} in such a system is {15/16}, a gap of {1/16}. The next fraction larger than {0/1} is {1/255}, a gap of {1/255}. In general, for a k-bit floating-slash system, the gap size varies from smaller than 2^(-k) to a worst case 2^(-k/2). In practise this means that a real value that falls into one of the larger gaps, will be represented by a fraction which will be accurate to only half its usual precision. Fortunately such large 18 gaps are rare, and increasingly so for higher precision, occurring only near simple fractions. However it does mean that real results can only be completely trusted to half the given decimal places. A partial solution to this problem would be to represent rationals directly as continued fractions. This gives a much better uniformity of gap-size (Kornerup & Matula 1985), but would be very difficult to implement using a high level language. Arithmetic on 'flash' data-types is undoubtedly slower than on an equivalent sized multiprecision floating-point type (e.g. Brent 1978). The advantages of the 'flash' approach are its ability to exactly represent rational numbers, and do exact arithmetic on them. Even when rounding is needed, the result often works out correctly, due to the tendency of mediant-rounding to prefer a simple fraction over a complex one. For example the 'roots' program (Appendix IV) when asked to find the square root of 2 and then square the result, comes back with the exact answer of 2, despite internal rounding. So the MIRACL approach should appeal to those who prefer an answer of 10, to one of 9.9999997. Many users of the MIRACL package would be disappointed that they have to calculate t = x.x + x + 1 by the sequence fmul(x,x,t); fadd(t,x,t); fincr(t,1,1,t); rather than by simply t=x*x+x+1; 19 Someone could of course use the MIRACL library to write a special purpose C compiler which could properly interpret such a command (see Cherry and Morris 1984 for an example of this approach). However such a drastic step is not necessary. A superset of C, called C++, has been developed by AT&T (Stroustrup 1986), which may gain general acceptance as the natural successor to C. The enhancements to C are mainly aimed at making it an object-oriented language. By defining 'big' and 'flash' variables as 'classes' (in C++ terminology), it will be possible to 'overload' the usual mathematical operators, so that the compiler will automatically substitute calls to the appropriate MIRACL routines when these operators are used in conjunction with 'big' or 'flash' variables. Furthermore C++ will be able to look after the initialization (and ultimate elimination) of these data-types automatically, using its constructor/destructor constructs, which are included with the class definition. Indeed once the classes are properly defined and set up, it should be as simple to work with the new data-types as with the built-in double and int types. 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Addison-Wesley, Reading, Mass., 1986. 23 Appendix I Representable values in range 0-1 for a slash system for which numerator*denominator < 256. 0/1 1/255 1/254 1/253 1/252 1/251 1/250 1/249 1/248 1/247 1/246 1/245 1/244 1/243 1/242 1/241 1/240 1/239 1/238 1/237 1/236 1/235 1/234 1/233 1/232 1/231 1/230 1/229 1/228 1/227 1/226 1/225 1/224 1/223 1/222 1/221 1/220 1/219 1/218 1/217 1/216 1/215 1/214 1/213 1/212 1/211 1/210 1/209 1/208 1/207 1/206 1/205 1/204 1/203 1/202 1/201 1/200 1/199 1/198 1/197 1/196 1/195 1/194 1/193 1/192 1/191 1/190 1/189 1/188 1/187 1/186 1/185 1/184 1/183 1/182 1/181 1/180 1/179 1/178 1/177 1/176 1/175 1/174 1/173 1/172 1/171 1/170 1/169 1/168 1/167 1/166 1/165 1/164 1/163 1/162 1/161 1/160 1/159 1/158 1/157 1/156 1/155 1/154 1/153 1/152 1/151 1/150 1/149 1/148 1/147 1/146 1/145 1/144 1/143 1/142 1/141 1/140 1/139 1/138 1/137 1/136 1/135 1/134 1/133 1/132 1/131 1/130 1/129 1/128 1/127 1/126 1/125 1/124 1/123 1/122 1/121 1/120 1/119 1/118 1/117 1/116 1/115 1/114 1/113 1/112 1/111 1/110 1/109 1/108 1/107 1/106 1/105 1/104 1/103 1/102 1/101 1/100 1/99 1/98 1/97 1/96 1/95 1/94 1/93 1/92 1/91 1/90 1/89 1/88 1/87 1/86 1/85 1/84 1/83 1/82 1/81 1/80 1/79 1/78 1/77 1/76 1/75 1/74 1/73 1/72 1/71 1/70 1/69 1/68 1/67 1/66 1/65 1/64 2/127 1/63 2/125 1/62 2/123 1/61 2/121 1/60 2/119 1/59 2/117 1/58 2/115 1/57 2/113 1/56 2/111 1/55 2/109 1/54 2/107 1/53 2/105 1/52 2/103 1/51 2/101 1/50 2/99 1/49 2/97 1/48 2/95 1/47 2/93 1/46 2/91 1/45 2/89 1/44 2/87 1/43 2/85 1/42 2/83 1/41 2/81 1/40 2/79 1/39 2/77 1/38 2/75 1/37 2/73 1/36 2/71 1/35 2/69 1/34 2/67 1/33 2/65 1/32 2/63 1/31 2/61 1/30 2/59 1/29 2/57 3/85 1/28 3/83 2/55 3/82 1/27 3/80 2/53 3/79 1/26 3/77 2/51 3/76 1/25 3/74 2/49 3/73 1/24 3/71 2/47 3/70 1/23 3/68 2/45 3/67 1/22 3/65 2/43 3/64 1/21 3/62 2/41 3/61 1/20 3/59 2/39 3/58 1/19 3/56 2/37 3/55 1/18 3/53 2/35 3/52 1/17 3/50 2/33 3/49 1/16 4/63 3/47 2/31 3/46 4/61 1/15 4/59 3/44 2/29 3/43 4/57 1/14 4/55 3/41 2/27 3/40 4/53 1/13 4/51 3/38 2/25 3/37 4/49 1/12 4/47 3/35 2/23 3/34 4/45 1/11 4/43 3/32 2/21 3/31 4/41 5/51 1/10 5/49 4/39 3/29 5/48 2/19 5/47 3/28 4/37 5/46 1/9 5/44 4/35 3/26 5/43 2/17 5/42 3/25 4/33 5/41 1/8 5/39 4/31 3/23 5/38 2/15 5/37 3/22 4/29 5/36 1/7 6/41 5/34 4/27 3/20 5/33 2/13 5/32 3/19 4/25 5/31 6/37 1/6 6/35 5/29 4/23 3/17 5/28 2/11 5/27 3/16 4/21 5/26 6/31 7/36 1/5 7/34 6/29 5/24 4/19 7/33 3/14 5/23 7/32 2/9 7/31 5/22 3/13 7/30 4/17 5/21 6/25 7/29 1/4 8/31 7/27 6/23 5/19 4/15 7/26 3/11 8/29 5/18 7/25 2/7 7/24 5/17 8/27 3/10 7/23 4/13 5/16 6/19 7/22 8/25 9/28 1/3 9/26 8/23 7/20 6/17 5/14 9/25 4/11 7/19 3/8 8/21 5/13 7/18 9/23 2/5 9/22 7/17 5/12 8/19 3/7 10/23 7/16 4/9 9/20 5/11 6/13 7/15 8/17 9/19 10/21 11/23 1/2 11/21 10/19 9/17 8/15 7/13 6/11 11/20 5/9 9/16 4/7 11/19 7/12 10/17 3/5 11/18 8/13 5/8 12/19 7/11 9/14 11/17 2/3 13/19 11/16 9/13 7/10 12/17 5/7 13/18 8/11 11/15 3/4 13/17 10/13 7/9 11/14 4/5 13/16 9/11 14/17 5/6 11/13 6/7 13/15 7/8 15/17 8/9 9/10 10/11 11/12 12/13 13/14 14/15 15/16 1/1 24 Appendix II - Header files ***** Deleted to save space - insert mirdef.h/miracl.h files here ******* 25