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Next: <a href="Jacobi-Symbol.html#Jacobi-Symbol" accesskey="n" rel="next">Jacobi Symbol</a>, Previous: <a href="Subquadratic-GCD.html#Subquadratic-GCD" accesskey="p" rel="prev">Subquadratic GCD</a>, Up: <a href="Greatest-Common-Divisor-Algorithms.html#Greatest-Common-Divisor-Algorithms" accesskey="u" rel="up">Greatest Common Divisor Algorithms</a> [<a href="Concept-Index.html#Concept-Index" title="Index" rel="index">Index</a>]</p>
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<h4 class="subsection">15.3.4 Extended GCD</h4>
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<p>The extended GCD function, or GCDEXT, calculates <em>gcd(a,b)</em> and also
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cofactors <em>x</em> and <em>y</em> satisfying <em>a*x+b*y=gcd(a,b)</em>. All the algorithms used for plain GCD are extended to
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handle this case. The binary algorithm is used only for single-limb GCDEXT.
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Lehmer’s algorithm is used for sizes up to <code>GCDEXT_DC_THRESHOLD</code>. Above
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this threshold, GCDEXT is implemented as a loop around HGCD, but with more
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book-keeping to keep track of the cofactors. This gives the same asymptotic
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running time as for GCD and HGCD, <em>O(M(N)*log(N))</em>
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<p>One difference to plain GCD is that while the inputs <em>a</em> and <em>b</em> are
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reduced as the algorithm proceeds, the cofactors <em>x</em> and <em>y</em> grow in
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size. This makes the tuning of the chopping-point more difficult. The current
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code chops off the most significant half of the inputs for the call to HGCD in
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the first iteration, and the most significant two thirds for the remaining
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calls. This strategy could surely be improved. Also the stop condition for the
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loop, where Lehmer’s algorithm is invoked once the inputs are reduced below
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<code>GCDEXT_DC_THRESHOLD</code>, could maybe be improved by taking into account the
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current size of the cofactors.
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