BigNum Math

Chapter 3

Basic Operations

3.1 Introduction

In the previous chapter, a series of low-level algorithms was established that dealt with initializing and maintaining mp_int structures. This chapter will discuss another set of seemingly non-algebraic algorithms that will form the low-level basis of the entire library. While these algorithms are relatively trivial, it is important to understand how they work before proceeding since these algorithms will be used almost intrinsically in the following chapters.

The algorithms in this chapter deal primarily with more “programmer” related tasks such as creating copies of mp_int structures, assigning small values to mp_int structures and comparisons of the values mp_int structures represent.

3.2 Assigning ...