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I have the files but I haven't uploaded them as they are very big. I imagined one of the other programs would create the files, but I've yet to discover it. I b

by daoudc 15y ago

I have the files but I haven't uploaded them as they are very big. I imagined one of the other programs would create the files, but I've yet to discover it. I believe these files are precomputations that are meant to speed up the algorithm.

wbhart 15y ago
Perhaps they are tables of precomputed inverses of primes to speed up the trial division. There might be up to 100000 entries in the file if this is the case. I can't think what else would be in the file. I would have guessed the file was generated by the program and would contain relations from a sieving run for the last large factorisation your uncle did. But I also don't see how these files get generated by the code.