"You can't get to the moon by piling up chairs." Home About Loper OS Guiding Principles RSS Feed Contact PGP « The Peculiarly Quiet Decline and Fall of the KVM “Finite Field Arithmetic.” Chapter 2: Logical and Bitwise Operations. » “Finite Field Arithmetic.” Chapter 1: Genesis. FFA , or the Finite Field Arithmetic library, differs from the typical Open Sores abomination, in that — rather than trusting the author blindly with their lives — prospective users are expected to read and fully understand every single line. In exactly the same manner that you would understand and pack your own parachute . This article is the first in a series, at the end of which the patient reader will have glued together, with his own hands — and fully fit into his head — a demonstrably-correct set of routines for multiple-precision arithmetic, sufficient for carrying out RSA and many ...