Source: gap-factint Section: math Priority: optional Maintainer: Debian Science Maintainers Uploaders: Jerome Benoit Rules-Requires-Root: no Build-Depends: debhelper-compat (= 13), gap (>= 4.13.0), gap-gapdoc, gap-autodoc, gap-io, texlive-latex-extra, texlive-fonts-recommended Standards-Version: 4.7.0 Homepage: https://www.gap-system.org/Packages/factint.html Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/gap-factint.git Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/science-team/gap-factint Package: gap-factint Provides: gap-pkg-factint Architecture: all Depends: gap (>=4.13.0), gap-gapdoc, gap-io, ${misc:Depends} Description: advanced methods for factoring integers for GAP GAP is a system for computational discrete algebra with particular emphasis on computational group theory, but which has already proved useful also in other areas. . This package brings to GAP routines for factoring integers, in particular: - Pollard's p-1 - Williams' p+1 - Elliptic Curves Method (ECM) - Continued Fraction Algorithm (CFRAC) - Multiple Polynomial Quadratic Sieve (MPQS) . It also provides access to Richard P. Brent's tables of factors of integers of the form b^k +/- 1.