User talk:Caleb Stanford/Archive 1

Skyline math competitions
hey cstanford i checked the links you posted about the math competitions, they are out of date and don't work. do you want to update? (john from skyline) Jch22 (talk) 23:23, 15 March 2011 (UTC)

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Both Tonelli-Shanks and Cipolla's modular square root algorithms can handle powers of prime modula (not just primes)
I looked up Dickson's History of Numbers vol 1 p215(Tonelli) and p218(Cipolla) and Dickson clearly shows that both modular square root algorithms can handle powers of prime modula (whereas the Wiki articles say they can only do prime modula).

I've updated the TALK pages of both articles with the relevant Dickson math, along with numeric runthroughs with Mathematica code.

However, I am not a professional mathematician so I hesitate to update the articles.

Perhaps yourself, or someone else in the Computer science field could update the relevant articles with this information from Dickson.

The articles in question are:


 * Tonelli–Shanks algorithm


 * Cipolla's algorithm

Endo999 (talk) 04:54, 13 February 2018 (UTC)