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: Triggered, on re-reading, by an utter lack of description of the algorithm on the page itself, combined with [for me] unfamiliar (and unlinked) terms for familiar concepts (like "factor method" - technically all of these approaches are "factor methods" so without some definition the term winds up being ambiguous). And I don't have a copy of Knuth's book handy. I guess I am supposed to reverse engineer one of the linked implementations? --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] ([[User talk:Rdm|talk]]) 18:13, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
:: I have Knuth's Vol. 2 book, but the algorithm is way beyond my ability to explain it or paraphrase it, or even parrot it. (My utter is bigger than your utter, and I have a book for help). Even if I could explain it, Dr. Knuth's explanation of pretty detailed and extensive. I've read (and re-read) the particular chapter and still don't know it well enough to explain it. I was thinking about quoting the text wholesale, but I didn't want to push that particular envelope. Perhaps someone with a much better mathematics background could dive in that pool and illuminate the process (well, Dr. Knuth did, but I'm still a bit mystified and unilluminated). I was hoping that the <strike> two </strike> several computer programming examples (as referenced by the links) would provide enough insight to code other computer programming language examples (entries). -- [[User:Gerard Schildberger|Gerard Schildberger]] ([[User talk:Gerard Schildberger|talk]]) 19:33, 2 June 2015 (UTC)
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