From: muraken@... Date: 2015-03-30T04:14:45+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:68680] [Ruby trunk - Feature #11003] Fast modular exponentiation Issue #11003 has been updated by Kenta Murata. Description updated ---------------------------------------- Feature #11003: Fast modular exponentiation https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/11003#change-51968 * Author: venkatesh babu * Status: Open * Priority: Normal * Assignee: ---------------------------------------- I would like to suggest, implementing "fast Modular Exponentiation " (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modular_exponentiation) for fixnum class. Eg: A function like pow(a, n, MOD) can be computed more efficiently than (a**n) % MOD -- https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/