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math.NA2010
George Forsythe's last paper
Richard P. Brent
We describe von Neumann's elegant idea for sampling from the exponential distribution, Forsythe's generalization for sampling from a probability distribution whose density has the…
math.NA2010
Note on Computing Ratings from Eigenvectors
Richard P. Brent
We consider the problem of computing ratings using the results of games played between a set of n players, and show how this problem can be reduced to computing the positive eigenv…
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Factorizations of Cunningham numbers with bases 13 to 99
Richard P. Brent, Peter L. Montgomery, Herman J. J. te Riele
This Report updates the tables of factorizations of a^n +- 1 for 13 < a < 100, previously published as CWI Report NM-R9212 (June 1992) and updated in CWI Report NM-R9419 (Update 1,…