Using Python for computing on Elliptic Curves (very) preliminary draft

number, b the string hello people, and c a floating point number. Finally, you can operate with variables as you normally would. How about arithmetic modulo p? We can ask python to reduce a number modulo p using the operator % as follows: >>> 5 % 3 2 >>> 5234524452**18 % 19 1L The first line computed the remainder of 5 modulo 3. The second ... ................
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