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  2. Branching factor - Wikipedia

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    The higher the branching factor, the faster this "explosion" occurs. The branching factor can be cut down by a pruning algorithm. The average branching factor can be quickly calculated as the number of non-root nodes (the size of the tree, minus one; or the number of edges) divided by the number of non-leaf nodes (the number of nodes with ...

  3. General number field sieve - Wikipedia

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    An optimal strategy for choosing these polynomials is not known; one simple method is to pick a degree d for a polynomial, consider the expansion of n in base m (allowing digits between −m and m) for a number of different m of order n 1/d, and pick f(x) as the polynomial with the smallest coefficients and g(x) as x − m.

  4. Factor graph - Wikipedia

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    with a corresponding factor graph shown on the right. Observe that the factor graph has a cycle. If we merge (,) (,) into a single factor, the resulting factor graph will be a tree. This is an important distinction, as message passing algorithms are usually exact for trees, but only approximate for graphs with cycles.

  5. Special number field sieve - Wikipedia

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    The SNFS works as follows. Let n be the integer we want to factor. As in the rational sieve, the SNFS can be broken into two steps: First, find a large number of multiplicative relations among a factor base of elements of Z/nZ, such that the number of multiplicative relations is larger than the number of elements in the factor base.

  6. Integer factorization - Wikipedia

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    Continuing this process until every factor is prime is called prime factorization; the result is always unique up to the order of the factors by the prime factorization theorem. To factorize a small integer n using mental or pen-and-paper arithmetic, the simplest method is trial division : checking if the number is divisible by prime numbers 2 ...

  7. Christofides algorithm - Wikipedia

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    The union of the tree and the matching is a cycle, with no possible shortcuts, and with weight approximately 3n/2. However, the optimal solution uses the edges of weight 1 + ε together with two weight- 1 edges incident to the endpoints of the path, and has total weight (1 + ε )( n − 2) + 2 , close to n for small values of ε .

  8. Quadratic sieve - Wikipedia

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    The quadratic sieve algorithm (QS) is an integer factorization algorithm and, in practice, the second-fastest method known (after the general number field sieve). It is still the fastest for integers under 100 decimal digits or so, and is considerably simpler than the number field sieve. It is a general-purpose factorization algorithm, meaning ...

  9. Polynomial root-finding - Wikipedia

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    The square-free factorization of a polynomial p is a factorization = where each is either 1 or a polynomial without multiple roots, and two different do not have any common root. An efficient method to compute this factorization is Yun's algorithm .