On Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:33:38 -0800 "Jeffrey Lee Hellrung, Jr." <jhellrung@ucla.edu> wrote:
On 3/9/2011 7:19 AM, Chad Nelson wrote:
I'm leery of looking at any GMP code... it's probably pure paranoia, the GPL can't apply to just *looking* at code, but I'd rather stick to descriptions to ensure that my code doesn't resemble anyone else's and nobody can claim that I've copied from them.
For the Schönhage–Strassen multiplication algorithm, I found the following paper about the GMP implementation to be very illuminating (and doesn't have the errors that the wikipedia entry has!):
Noted, thanks.
I'm not a lawyer, but I would think it's fine to base an implementation off the description given in that paper.
Yes, I've never even heard a hint of anyone successfully claiming to own an algorithm. -- Chad Nelson Oak Circle Software, Inc. * * *