User talk:Eriksilkensen

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Cipolla's algorithm and Tonelli's algorithm are able to find square roots of powers of prime modula
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

By the way I used to live in Boston, I attended Boston University in the 1980s, and I used to visit friends at NorthEastern University.

Endo999 (talk) 16:01, 1 February 2018 (UTC)