exponentiation

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• In computer science, exponentiation is often used in algorithms to efficiently compute large exponential values.

• This exponentiation is implemented via the 'square and multiply' algorithm, shown in the figure below:

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• It's definition of the exponentiation procedure in terms of itself.

• The exponentiation (M E) is performed using the following algorithm.

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• So actually you can do an exponentiation through recursive multiplication.

• We'll also need another modulus under which to perform exponentiation and multiplication.

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• The estimates of odds ratios and their confidence intervals, both overall and by age, were calculated by exponentiation of the relevant linear predictors.

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• Exponentiation, A B mod(N), is performed as repeated multiplications using a square and multiply algorithm.

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• We're doing this for every 256 bits of the file, so to hash an entire 1 gigabyte file, for instance, we have to compute over 33 million exponentiations.

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• The multiplier performs the modulo multiplication and exponentiation functions, and the convert and cleanup hardware converts the result into the proper binary format to return to the application.

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Synonyms

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involution

vsexponentiation

• Archaic

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Raising a number to a power, for example squaring

is the general term for the same power calculation process

How Complex

exponentiation

• Specialized

1 8.6

multiplication

12 2.0

addition

34 1.0

counting

111 1.0

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