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- MIRACL - IBM PC/MS-DOS Version 2.0
- ADDRESS- M.Scott, N.I.H.E., Ballymun, Dublin, Ireland
-
- This version includes several improvements over version 1.0.
-
- Version 1.1
-
- Faster integer roots program (speeds up deciph).
- Basic flash arithmetic now twice as fast.
- Flash roots and powers, exps and logs, and full complement of
- trig functions. See bnflsh1/2/3.c.
- Faster 'pi' program.
-
- Version 1.11
-
- Certain minor I/O bugs fixed.
-
- Version 1.2
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- NEW! MIRACL RATIONAL CALCULATOR program - RATCALC.EXE
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- Version 1.21
-
- More bugs hunted out. Integer roots program rewritten - again!
- New 32016 version of bnmuldv.c (from Dudley Long, RAL)
-
- Version 1.3
-
- Faster trig functions. New Hyperbolic functions. New improved RATCALC
- program, with more features
-
- Version 1.31
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- Header files rearranged and renamed. Certain routines renamed.
-
- Version 1.32
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- IBM PC 8087 support included. The inevitable bugs found and dealt with.
- Borlands Turbo C supported.
-
- Version 1.33
-
- RATCALC tidied up. Full Colour and 40 column versions supported (see
- comments in source listing).
-
- Version 1.34
-
- Okamoto's Public Key Encryption programs improved. Minor modifications
- to xgcd(). Documentation tidied up. Various optimizations - RATCALC 15%
- faster.
-
- Version 1.4
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- Basic flash operations function 'flop' rewritten to allow greater range
- of functions. Up to 30% speed-up acheived for exps, logs and trig
- functions.
-
- Version 2.0
-
- New suite of factoring programs, Pollard's p-1, Williams p+1 and Lenstra's
- Elliptic curve method. Also an implementation of the Quadratic sieve
- algorithm - very fast! Header files reorganised. Certain number theoretic
- functions added.
-
- Version 2.01
-
- New version for Acorn Archimedes 32-bit RISC micro. This calculates 1000!
- in just 10 seconds - faster than a VAX!. New 80386 version.
-
- Version 2.02 14/12/88
-
- Experimental C++ Headers now included. I/O routines modified to
- allow 'big' number conversion to/from pure binary form - useful for
- practical implementations of Public Key systems. 40% faster at
- finding large primes.
-
- Note - The MIRACL library is written in standard C and has been tested on
- several combinations of computer and compiler. It should work on any
- system which supports C as defined by Kernighan and Richie. The author is
- interested to hear of any problems that arise with other configurations.
-
- Remember - not all compilers are perfect! MIRACL contains work-arounds
- which were necessary to circumvent bugs in certain compilers.
-
- Known problems
-
- None
-