Re: Various notes about the TI 92

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Re: Various notes about the TI 92

Paul Pollack (paulp@televault.com) wrote:


: The point here is that the 92 gives a blatantly false result, which was
: what was said in the first place.


This is true.


: > Well, the theory's easy. What's the maximum integer size on the
: > 92? It'd be pretty easy to come up with something that would work
: > somewhat slower than molasses in winter.


: The max. integer size on the 92 is about 10^614, if I'm not mistaken
: (which I wouldn't count on).


10^616, maybe? That's around 2^2048, or about 256 bytes (That's
quite a large integer....) You could probably do an
implementation of RSA. Anyone want their TI-92 to be classified
as munitions?


Aaron
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