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We scoured last night's Met Gala red carpet for the evening's biggest trends. Click through to see and shop each one now.
Now that we've had plenty of time to freak out over everyone's Met Ball outfits last night, calm down and then promptly freak out again (Emma 's pink tube top-meets-crop top gets us every time), let's talk trends. No one showed up wearing exactly the same thing (turns out that Kim K and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley fashion face-off didn't actually happen), of course, but we did see a lot of similar fabrics, silhouettes and colors going on. The 11 in the slideshow above definitely stood out the most, which is why we've also shopped for non-white tie options you can test drive right now. This is the most fashion forward red carpet of the season, after all, so these looks are bound to be huge come fall. Click through to get ahead of the game.


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Whew—thank goodness it's Friday. It's always the short weeks
that feel the longest. Working five full days next week is going to be rough.
Everyone has been posting their 2013 goals this week, which
I kind of love because I'm a goal-oriented person. I will not, however, be
posting mine because I posted my Q4 goals back in the fall, and you know what?
I've completed precisely two. Two out of nine is not good my friends. I'm
almost finished with several others, but almost isn't enough to put that
fulfilling strike through it. So lesson learned: do not post goals on the
internet. Atleast not those with a timeline attached.
I did see an interesting article from the Harvard Business
Review on the Top Five Career Regrets that is worth keeping in mind when you're
planning for 2013 (or for life in general). The author asked a
focus group with people as varied as a Fortune 500 CEO to a struggling
photographer what they regret in their careers. The themes were consistent: quit earlier, have the confidence to
start your own business, follow your career hunches. I won't spoil all of them,
but it's a worthwhile read for your Friday morning.
Now that I'm in the blogging groove, and have proven to
myself that I can and will stick with blogging, I plan on putting some effort
into growing this blog—in every way possible. Obviously I want to increase
traffic and subscribers, but also solidify my writing voice and focus, get a
professional design, and make contacts in the blogging world. It's a cool group
of people out there. Alt Summit is making it easy this month and offering all of
their online blogging courses free of charge. I've already signed up for
three: Setting Up Online, Planning
Your Editorial Calendar and Using Photography to Build Your Blog. You can find
the calendar of free Alt classes here if you're interested. (Oh, and thanks Bing.)
Awhile back, I abandoned my plan to get a new couch/ recover a vintage couch in favor of sticking with the sofa I have, but two bloggers
have posted their new sofas this week and they're both making me rethink that
Little Green Notebook |
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Aren't they pretty? I have serious sofa envy.
Anyone want to spend the weekend scouring Craigslist and
thrift stores for a new/old sofa to recover in velvet now? I'm thinking it sounds like a great way
to spend the weekend.
Hope it's a good one!


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Solution | Impl | Order anti-lex |
Order lexico |
Restrict count |
Restrict size |
Max in 10s | Count in 10s |
ntheory 0.45 | XS | yes | no | yes | yes | 87 | 223,000 |
ntheory 0.45 | Perl | yes | no | yes | yes | 72 | 7,300 |
Integer::Partition 0.05 | Perl | yes | yes | no | no | 67 | - |
(unreleased, from Limbic 2004) |
Perl | no | yes | no | no | 62 | 6,000 |
MJD 2013 | Perl | no | no | no | no | 71 | - |
blokhead 2007 | Perl | yes | no | no | no | 63 | - |
kvale 2004 | Perl | yes | no | no | no | 62 | - |
sfink 2004 | Perl | yes | no | no | no | 58 | - |
tye 2001 | Perl | no | no | no | no | 58 | - |
(golfed, 73 chrs) |
Perl | no (73) yes(90) |
no | no | no | 21 | - |
Pari/GP 2.8.0 (not a Perl module!) |
C/Pari | no | no | yes | yes | 100 | 34,000,000 |
For counting, the fastest solutions use the Hardy-Ramanujan-Rademacher formula. The state of the art is Johansson's ARB, which is thousands of times faster than Pari. Pari also uses the Rademacher formula and is quite fast. Jonathan Bober has GPL code using GMP and MPFR that is a little faster than Pari, but MPFR isn't installed on most platforms (meaning it's hard to incorporate into a portable library). I'm using a triangle solution, which isn't too bad in C+GMP compared to Perl's bigints, but way off the fast formula. Integer::Partitions doesn't have a counting method.
ntheory (aka Math::Prime::Util) has a function taking a block (aka an anonymous sub), the number, and an optional hash of restriction parameters. The block is called for each partition with the argument list set to the partition. The restriction parameters are similar to Pari/GP's, with min/max count and min/max element size. This can save quite a bit of time doing filtering (sometimes with shortcuts) inside the XS code.
I debated call by value (a new argument list for each call) vs. call by reference (giving the caller access to internal data). Some XS iterators, e.g. Algorithm::Permute's fast permute, do the latter, and it is faster. I decided on the former because I like the idea that the caller can manipulate its arguments as desired without worrying about segfaults, incorrect iteration, infinite iteration, etc.
Typically the XS code would be used, but there are also pure Perl implementations for everything. They are used if the XS Loader fails, the environment variable MPU_NO_XS exists and is true, or in cases where the arguments would overflow or are not properly parseable.
use ntheory qw/forpart partitions/;
forpart { say "@_"; } 8; # All partitions of 8
forpart { say "@_"; } 10,{nmin=>5,amax=>4}; # Only 5+ parts, all <= 4
say partitions(2000); # Counting
The Integer::Partition module has been on CPAN for a number of years, and is the only solution giving both lexicographic and anti-lexicographic ordering choices. It's reasonably fast unless you need larger values with restrictions, or want counts.
use Integer::Partition;
my $iter = Integer::Partition->new(8);
while (my $p = $iter->next) {
say "@$p";
Math::Pari isn't in the table because it builds with Pari 2.1.7 by default. numbpart (partition count) was added in version 2.2.5 (Nov 2003), and forpart was added in 2.6.1 (Sep 2013). It's possible to build Math::Pari with version 2.3.5 so we could get numbpart but not forpart.
Pari's forpart is quite fast, and has some nice optimizations for restrictions as well. The ordering is by number of elements rather than a lexicographic ordering. The only way to use this from Perl would be a system call to gp.
There are also golfed solutions in under 100 characters. We can even add a callback sub and anti-lexicographic sort and still come in at 93 characters. As usual with heavily golfed code, these are quite slow, managing only 21 partitions in under 10 seconds. This also uses an internal hash for the partitions, which means memory use will grow (though time grows faster so this isn't really an issue).
Here is my simple modification to the golfed solutions, taking 90 characters
for integer partitions in anti-lexicographic order with a callback sub. It's
very slow however, so just for fun.
sub p{my($s,@e,$o,@f)=@_;@f=sort{$b<=>$a}@e;$_{"@f"}||=$s->(@f);p($s,++$o,@e)while--$e[0]}
Memory | Time | Solution |
2096k | 72.6s | Perl trial division mod 6 |
2100k | 124.8s | Perl trial division |
3652k | 36.2s | Math::GMP |
3940k | 14.8s | Math::GMPz |
4040k | 1.9s | Math::Prime::Util (no GMP backend) |
4388k | 1.9s | Math::Prime::Util (with GMP backend) |
4568k | 1.4s | Math::Prime::Util (GMP + precalc) |
4888k | 4.4s | Math::Prime::XS |
5316k | 245.1s | Math::Primality |
5492k | 29.8s | Math::Pari |
6260k | 1.5s | Math::Prime::FastSieve |
~16MB | >1 year | regex |
Times are with perl 5.20.0 on an Ubuntu Core2 E7500 machine. I used /usr/bin/time perl -E '...' to get the time and memory use. With this system just starting up Perl on the command line takes about 2MB.
The first two entries are simple Perl trial division routines:
# mod-6 wheel
sub isprime { my($n) = @_; return ($n >=2) if $n < 4; return if ($n%2 == 0) || ($n%3 == 0); my $sn=int(sqrt($n)); for (my $i = 5; $i <= $sn; $i += 6) { return unless $n % $i && $n % ($i+2); } 1; }
$s += isprime($_) for 1..1e7; say $s;
# Standard method, from RosettaCode
sub isprime { my($n) = @_; $n % $_ or return for 2 .. sqrt $n; $n > 1; }
$s += isprime($_) for 1..1e7; say $s;
These have essentially no memory use, but are pretty slow especially as the input increases. However, very low memory and gets the job done for small inputs.
The modules Math::GMP and Math::GMPz have calls to GMP's mpz_probab_prime_p function. They are the lowest memory of the module solutions by a small margin, but not the fastest. They shouldn't slow down much with larger inputs.
Math::GMPz has a bit clunkier interface but is faster and exports the entire GMP integer API (which makes it use a little more memory to load). The speed will differ based on the number of tests: only 3 are required for this size, but we must have at minimum 11 for 64-bit inputs and probably more to avoid false results. Math::GMP has much more object overhead though I believe this is being worked on.
Like some other modules, the result of the primality test is either 2 (definitely prime), 1 (probably prime), or 0 (definitely composite). Using the double negation is an easy and fast way to make the result either 1 or 0.
use Math::GMP; $i=Math::GMP->new(0); for (1..1e7) { $i++; $s += !!$i->probab_prime(15) } ; say $s;
use Math::GMPz; $i=Math::GMPz->new(0); for (1..1e7) { $i++; $s += !!Math::GMPz::Rmpz_probab_prime_p($i,15) }; say $s
Math::Prime::Util is my number theory module. After working on cutting down memory use it's reasonably small even with many exportable functions. It is the fastest solution as well.
By default it will load the GMP back-end if available. This uses a little more memory, but can be turned off either by not having it installed or setting the environment variable MPU_NO_GMP to a non-zero value.
use Math::Prime::Util "is_prime"; $s += !!is_prime($_) for 1..1e7; say $s;
To match the behavior of Math::Prime::FastSieve, we can precalculate the primes, making is_prime a simple bit-set lookup.
use Math::Prime::Util qw/is_prime prime_precalc/; prime_precalc(1e7); $s += !!is_prime($_) for 1..1e7; say $s;
Math::Prime::XS does mod-6 trial division in C. It's fast for small inputs, but as expected from an exponential-time algorithm, will slow down a lot with large inputs. It uses more memory than I'd expect.
use Math::Prime::XS "is_prime"; $s += is_prime($_) for 1..1e7; say $s;
Math::Primality implements the BPSW algorithm in Perl using Math::GMPz. It really is better suited for bigint inputs, being both slow and memory intensive for this simple task.
use Math::Primality "is_prime"; $s += !!is_prime($_) for 1..1e7; say $s;
Math::Pari is the Perl interface to the old Pari 2.1.7 library. It has lots of functionality, but does take up almost 1.5MB more startup memory. While PARI/GP is reasonably efficient (about 4 seconds), the module returns the boolean result as a Math::Pari object which sucks up lots of time. The double negation is a little faster than directly summing the result.
use Math::Pari qw/isprime/; $s += !!isprime($_) for 1..1e7; say $s;
Math::Prime::FastSieve takes a little different approach. It's written using Inline::CPP and sieves a range into a bit vector, after which operations (such as isprime) can be efficiently performed. That does limit its range, but the time shows it's quite fast at this operation.
use Math::Prime::FastSieve; my $sieve = Math::Prime::FastSieve::Sieve->new(1e7); $s += $sieve->isprime($_) for 1..1e7; say $s;
Lastly we come to Abigail's regex. Very popular for code golfing and showing awesome regex hacks, it occasionally is seen as a practical recommendation from people who have clearly never used it for non-toy-size inputs. It's very cool. It's also not practical for larger inputs. For this task it took 6.8 seconds and 2684k for the first 10k, but 2607 seconds and 7144k for isprime for the first 100k integers. It takes over 1 minute to verify 999,983 is prime, and for 9,999,991 I killed it after 40 minutes. Hence my estimate of over a year to finish the sum-to-10M example.
sub isprime { ('1' x shift) !~ /^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$/ } $s += isprime($_) for 1..1e7; say $s
If you're using Moose or a long-running process, the memory use for any of the reasonable solutions here probably doesn't matter -- use what is easy and fast. For command-line programs or processes that are spun up just for a single task, the memory use can matter. My module was hitting 9MB before I finally had enough and reduced it substantially (a big chunk of that was by having functions go straight to XS and load up the thousands of lines of PP only if required). Even for such a simple task as this we can see sizes ranging from 2MB to 6MB, with over 2MB difference even between modules.
Another subject that is important, especially for making utility scripts, is startup time. This task did not measure that, but it can also be a bottleneck especially if comparing vs. standalone C programs that have essentially no startup cost.
]]>invmod(a,n) computes the modular inverse. Similar to Pari's lift(Mod(1/a,n)) and Math::BigInt's bmodinv, though faster than either with native values and returns an undef when not defined instead of raising an exception (Pari) or returning NaN (Math::BigInt).
vecsum(...) returns the sum of a list of integers. What about List::Util::sum! I was using that, until I started wondering why my results were sometimes incorrect. Try:
my $n = int(2**53); die unless $n+13 == int(sum($n,13));
binomial(n,k) computes a binomial coefficient. I discussed this in a previous post. It uses the full Kronenburg definition for negative arguments, and as much computation in C as possible for speed.
forpart { ... } n[,{...}] loops over integer partitions. Pari 2.6 added this, and I thought I would as well. In its simplest form, it gives the additive partitions like the Integer::Partition module, just much faster (albeit not using an iterator). It also allows restrictions to be given, such as
forpart { say "@_" } 10,{n=>5}to only show the partitions with exactly 5 elements. We can use amin and amax to restrict by element size; nmin and nmax to restrict by number of elements. Of course any restriction can be done inside the block, but using the passed-in restriction means the block doesn't get called at all -- important when the number of unrestricted partitions is in the tens or hundreds of millions.
Wojchiech Izykowski has been working on fast Miller-Rabin testing for some time, including, for a few years now, hosting the Best known SPRP bases collection. He's also been working on Fast Miller-Rabin primality test code. I sent him a 1994 paper by Arazi a while back, which he managed to turn into a performance improvement to his 2^64 modular inverse, and some more back and forth led to even faster code. That combined with a few other changes to the Montgomery math resulted in a close to 50% speedup in the primality tests, which were already blazingly fast. On my 4770k it's now less than a microsecond at any 64-bit size, and 2-5x faster than Pari/GP. The caveat being that the fastest Montgomery path is only used on x86_64. Regardless of platform, the results for any 64-bit number are deterministic -- there are no false results because we use the BPSW test.
I also made a small speedup for small integer factoring, which helps speed up a few functions that call it, e.g. euler_phi, divisor_sum, moebius, etc. Useful for shaving off a little time from naive Project Euler solutions perhaps. I had a few tasks that did a lot of calling of these functions for small-ish values, and while they're already pretty fast, every little bit helps.
For minor updates, I already mentioned vecmin and vecmax. I have some improvements to legendre_phi that should be done. I'm thinking is_power may get an optional third argument like Pari that gets set to the root.
Math::Prime::Util::GMP has implementations of valuation, invmod, is_pseudoprime, and binomial now, to help speed those up. I'll probably add vecsum as well. I have a speedup coming for primality testing of numbers in the 40 to 5000 digit range, which is important for the applications I'm running.
Lastly, I'm really hoping to get time to make an XS bigint module, which should give a big boost to the cases where we need bigint processing but don't have GMP. Math::BigInt is a lot slower than I'd like.
]]>Experience has shown that once I have to leave the C code, performance takes a huge hit. Hence it would be best to handle everything possible here. I did a little experiment, calculating the 5151 cases of binomials with n in 0..100 and k in 0..n. All but 1355 of them have a 64-bit result, so this is (without going too crazy) the best we can get.
The single gcd is exactly what MJD suggests in his followup blog and gets most of the cases. However, for r = r * n/d, if we first reduce n/d then r/d, that handles the other cases. The cost is an extra gcd in C (only when it looks like we might overflow), to save us a call to either a GMP binomial turned into a Math::BigInt (not too bad), or to Perl's Math::BigInt bnok (a lot slower).
static UV gcd_ui(UV x, UV y) { if (y < x) { UV t = x; x = y; y = t; } while (y > 0) { UV t = y; y = x % y; x = t; /* y1 <- x0 % y0 ; x1 <- y0 */ } return x; } UV binomial(UV n, UV k) { UV d, g, r = 1; if (k >= n) return (k == n); if (k > n/2) k = n-k; for (d = 1; d <= k; d++) { if (r >= UV_MAX/n) { /* Possible overflow */ UV nr, dr; /* reduced numerator / denominator */ g = gcd_ui(n, d); nr = n/g; dr = d/g; g = gcd_ui(r, dr); r = r/g; dr = dr/g; if (r >= UV_MAX/nr) return 0; /* Unavoidable overflow */ r *= nr; r /= dr; n--; } else { r *= n--; r /= d; } } }
Once the C code overflows (or the XS layer decides it can't understand the arguments), I go to GMP if available, and Math::BigInt's bnok if not. When I started testing negative arguments, things got interesting. First let's look at the well defined case: n < 0, k >= 0. Knuth 1.2.6.G is quite standard: binomial(-n,k) = (-1)^k * binomial(n+k-1,k). This is handled correctly by Mathematica, Pari, and GMP, but not by Math::BigInt. An RT has been filed (the worst part is that it gives different answers depending on which back end is used).
Things get murky when looking at negative k. Knuth 1.2.6.B indicates that for a positive n, the binomial is 0 when k < 0 or k > n. But what about negative n? Pari says it is 0 in this case as well. GMP's API doesn't allow negative k at all. Math::BigInt also says it is always zero. But Mathematica references Kronenburg 2011 and defines it as (-1)^(n-k) * binomial(-k-1,n-k) when n < 0 and k <= n.
I've decided to follow the full Kronenburg definition for negative arguments. This means doing some additional work in the XS and GMP wrappers, as well as wrapping up Math::BigInt's function.
For GMP, this is relatively easy to handle, given char* strn and strk:
mpz_init_set_str(n, strn, 10);
mpz_init_set_str(k, strk, 10);
if (mpz_sgn(k) < 0) { /* Handle negative k */
if (mpz_sgn(n) >= 0 || mpz_cmp(k,n) > 0) mpz_set_ui(n, 0);
else mpz_sub(k, n, k);
mpz_bin_ui(n, n, mpz_get_ui(k));
/* ... return result n as appropriate ... */
mpz_clear(k); mpz_clear(n);
For XS and native-int Perl it's slightly trickier, because we have to overflow in the case where the unsigned binomial succeeded and we need to negate the result but the high bit is set -- hence it can't be represented as a signed integer. Wrapping Math::BigInt isn't too different than GMP. I've put a patch in the RT to do the modifications inside Math::BigInt, but it remains to be reviewed and further tested.
]]>The usual speed improvements in various areas, some approximation improvements, and new functions. Primality testing benchmarks also show Perl has state of the art solutions.
]]> New functions:Two big speedups in GMP primality tests. ECPP has updated polynomial data and some performance updates to keep its lead as the fastest open source primality proof for up to 500 digits. It remains competitive with Pari and the newest mpz_aprcl for quite a while after. With the larger poly set doesn't do too bad compared with Primo up to 2000 digits.
AKS has an improved algorithm using changes from Bernstein and Voloch, with a nice r/s heuristic from Bornemann. It runs about 200x faster now, making it, by quite a bit, the fastest publicly available AKS implementation. Even this updated version is still millions of times slower than ECPP. Repeat after me: AKS is important for the theory, but is not a practical algorithm...
Shows primality timing measurements for a number of open source solutions. All but APRCL and Primo are included in Math::Prime::Util.
]]>If you want to factor 30+ digit numbers I recommend additionally installing Math::BigInt::GMP and Math::Prime::Util::GMP.
factor.pl 2**63-1
factor.pl 'nth_prime(100000)*pn_primorial(10)*random_nbit_prime(90)'
This is just a brief look so I chose some easy numbers:
2**38-1 (3,174763,524287)
2**90-1 (3,3,3,7,11,19,31,73,151,331,631,23311,18837001)
2**150-1 (3,3,7,11,31,151,251,331,601,1801,4051,100801,
2**62-1 (3,715827883,2147483647)
2**95-1 (31,191,524287,420778751,30327152671)
2**195-1 (7,31,79,151,8191,121369,145295143558111,
2**250-1 (3,11,31,251,601,1801,4051,229668251,269089806001,
An aside: everyone's thoughts on what "small", "big", "easy", "hard" mean differ. To some, a 19-digit number is big, while to many people working on modern factoring that size is completely trivial, and anything under 100-digits is a yawn. My goal is to make it easy to factor 50-80 digit numbers in a reasonable time from Perl. If you are seriously looking for larger or better methods, I recommend yafu, msieve, GMP-ECM, and GGNFS.
So first let's look at the modules:
I took a fresh 5.16.2 perlbrew on an x86 Ubuntu machine and installed Math::BigInt::GMP to start, then tried various modules on some simple examples. I installed fresh versions of each module with CPAN before running. Timing results, in seconds, from the command line:
38 90 150 62 95 195 250 ------------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ Math::Big 13.7 369 >600 >600 >600 MF::XS 0.02 1.78 M::Factoring 0.22 0.12 7.86 493 302 >600 MPU 0.05 0.16 1.39 0.05 2.03 120+ 600+ MPU::GMP 0.05 0.05 0.06 0.05 0.06 0.40 1.57 Math::Pari 0.05 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.06 0.35 5.65
This is just a gross look, factoring a single number, so anything under 0.1 seconds is reflecting the overhead of starting Perl more than the actual time taken. Both Math::Pari and Math::Prime::Util do some startup work such as creating a small set of primes used for other functions, which the other modules don't do.
Math::Big::Factor: I tried different sizes for the factor wheel and 5 was the fastest for these examples. It took over 6 minutes to factor 2^90-1, which a trial division loop can do in under a second. I stopped it after 15 minutes on 2^150-1, which a trial division loop can do in a bit over 5 minutes.
Math::Factor::XS is super fast for the small example, but certainly slower than need be for 2^62-1. Its maximum size is MAX(sizeof(unsigned long), sizeof(UV)), so either 32-bit or 64-bit.
Math::Factoring will be pretty interesting once algorithms get added, and I'm thinking of submitting a patch to support some of the simpler methods from MPU like Pollard Rho (with Brent's improvements), 2-stage p-1, Fermat, HOLF, and possibly ECM. Using Math::GMPz directly should make it faster than using Math::BigInt objects.
Math::Prime::Util using pure Perl does a pretty good job on most of the numbers. The two largest examples are found using ECM, which is why the '+' sign on the time -- exactly how fast they get found depends on the random curves selected.
Math::Pari and Math::Prime::Util::GMP are the clear time winners, finding all the factors of the small examples basically instantly. Both of them factor random 30-digit numbers in under 10ms, and average under a second for random 60 digit numbers.
Edit for reference: command lines used:
perl -Mbigint=lib,GMP -MMath::Big::Factors=factors_wheel -E 'my $n = 2**38-1; say join ",", factors_wheel($n, 5);'
perl -MMath::Factor::XS=prime_factors -E 'my $n = 2**38-1; say join ",", prime_factors($n);'
perl -MMath::Factoring=factor -Mbigint=lib,GMP -E 'my $n = 2**38-1; say join ",", factor(Math::GMPz->new("$n"));'
perl -MMath::Prime::Util=factor -Mbigint=lib,GMP -E 'my $n = 2**38-1; say join ",", factor($n);
perl -MMath::Pari=factorint -Mbigint=lib,GMP -E 'my $n = 2**38-1; my ($pn,$pc) = @{factorint($n)}; say join ",", map { ($pn->[$_]) x $pc->[$_] } 0 .. $#$pn'
I decided to go ahead and do the Pari removal, and it's on CPAN as Alt::Crypt::RSA::BigInt. This uses Ingy's Alt framework -- install the Alt version and you get a new shiny Crypt::RSA. Install the old version and you're back again. There are no Pari dependencies, and if Math::BigInt::GMP is used, it's 5 to 11 times faster. I decided to use Math::BigInt directly, as that makes it very portable, though the speed without either the GMP or Pari backend leaves much to be desired.
This also fixes, to the best of my knowledge, all 11 of the open RT issues with Crypt::RSA, and adds some new features (e.g. SHA256, SHA224, SHA384, SHA512 support, fix Key::Private::SSH, and add new ciphers). It also fixes some serious issues with the key generation caused by Crypt::Primes. I intentionally left the API and internal structure as identical as possible. There's an argument to be made for a new RSA module, but that wasn't the point for this change.
The conversion of the math inside Crypt::RSA was relatively straightforward. The big issues were the dependencies. Math::Prime::Util has fast random prime generation and primality testing, which solves that portion. Fortuitously, David Oswald released Bytes::Random::Secure right before I started on the conversion, and it met all my needs for replacing Crypt::Random.


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"Fee war" or not, there's no denying big exchange-traded fund companies compete on cost. The rivalries are extending beyond management fees to include brokerage commissions and, more recently, the cost of index licensing. The last was near the top of the agenda at Index Universe's Inside ETFs conference, the biggest ETF event of the year, held last week in Hollywood, Fla.
Mark Wiedman, head of iShares, the largest ETF sponsor, told conference-goers that the company is reviewing its indexing contracts, a not-so-subtle shot across the industry's bow. The assertion that iShares' $591 billion in assets is nobody's cash cow follows Vanguard Group's shift of more than half a trillion dollars of mutual-fund and ETF assets away from well-known MSCI MSCI -1.2477064220183487% MSCI Inc. U.S.: NYSE USD53.82 -0.68 -1.2477064220183487% /Date(1422655841016-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 817593 AFTER HOURS USD53.82 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 24031 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap 6029454500.11292 Dividend Yield 1.3377926421404682% Rev. per Employee 310701 More quote details and news » (ticker: MSCI) benchmarks to less widely used FTSE Group and University of Chicago indexes, to keep a lid on costs. So, yes, the fee wars have become indexing wars.
For investors, the new rivalries bring trade-offs that don't come into play when ETFs simply lower their management fees. In this case, fund companies are seizing opportunities that arise from hotter competition in the indexing business. Besides the ascendant FTSE Group, there are players such as Nasdaq OMX NDAQ 0.951959264998893% NASDAQ OMX Group Inc. U.S.: Nasdaq USD45.6 0.43 0.951959264998893% /Date(1422655200220-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1369838 AFTER HOURS USD45.6 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 66975 P/E Ratio 16.402877697841728 Market Cap 7645523438.01118 Dividend Yield 1.3157894736842106% Rev. per Employee 1040120 More quote details and news » (NDAQ) with fresh benchmark-building ambitions. Nasdaq's recent moves include launching thousands of new global benchmarks and buying a family of dividend-themed indexes. "We're already an MSCI competitor," Nasdaq OMX Group's John Jacobs told Barron's at the conference.
Fund companies have simply realized there are more indexing options to consider, and they want investors to adapt.
Take Vanguard's shift to FTSE Group and University of Chicago indexes. While the company predicts the move could save hundreds of millions of dollars over time, investors are right to focus on what it means for their investments today. By switching indexers, Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets VWO -2.6803118908382064% Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 39.94 -1.1 -2.6803118908382064% /Date(1422655200268-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 21613988 AFTER HOURS 40 0.06 0.15022533800701052% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 433740 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 1.742613920881322% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » (VWO), one widely owned ETF, is eliminating a 15% weighting in South Korean stocks. Investors who liked that exposure have to decide whether to live with the change or alter their portfolio. FTSE's indexers consider South Korea a developed market.
"We weren't thrilled with Vanguard's decision to leave MSCI and move to FTSE," Larry Whistler, president of Nottingham Advisors, said at one of the week's discussion panels.
A buy-and-hold alternative getting more attention lately is the four-month-old iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets IEMG -2.4076380240763804% iShares Core MSCI Emerging Markets ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 47.02 -1.16 -2.4076380240763804% /Date(1422655200233-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 3377098 AFTER HOURS 47.02 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1500274 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 2.7187282007656317% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » ETF (IEMG). The fund offers a variant on the original MSCI index, with an 0.18% expense ratio that undercuts Vanguard by a small margin, to boot.
BROKERAGES' COMMISSION-free ETF trading, which may seem a more clear-cut win for investors, also involves trade-offs. The driver is the increasingly intricate set of alliances between fund sponsors and brokerages. Fund companies footing the cost of free trading expect assets to flow in return, especially into ETFs that haven't attracted many investors. Two weeks ago, discount brokerage Charles Schwab SCHW -1.2917933130699089% Charles Schwab Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD25.98 -0.34 -1.2917933130699089% /Date(1422655348830-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 8957371 AFTER HOURS USD25.98 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : 206628 P/E Ratio 27.0625 Market Cap 33923879138.5945 Dividend Yield 0.9237875288683602% Rev. per Employee 446159 More quote details and news » (SCHW) expanded its commission-free ETFs to more than 100, edging out TD Ameritrade for the biggest lineup. Schwab's includes popular funds such as the PowerShares S&P Low Volatility Portfolio SPLV -1.8243419338024498% PowerShares S&P 500 Low Volatility Portfolio U.S.: NYSE Arca 37.67 -0.7 -1.8243419338024498% /Date(1422655200185-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2492890 AFTER HOURS 37.64 -0.03 -0.07963897000265463% Volume (Delayed 15m) : 560 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 2.402548447040085% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » (SPLV) and Guggenheim's BulletShares defined-maturity ETFs, as well as sparsely owned funds like Guggenheim China All-Cap YAO -1.607717041800643% Guggenheim China All-Cap ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 27.54 -0.45 -1.607717041800643% /Date(1422654391125-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 2515 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 2.342047930283224% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » ETF (YAO) and PowerShares Dynamic Media PBS -1.7241379310344827% PowerShares Exchange-Traded Fund Trust Dynamic Media Portfolio U.S.: NYSE Arca 24.51 -0.43 -1.7241379310344827% /Date(1422655192236-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 19997 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 0.9101591187270501% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » (PBS). There are no offerings from industry-leading iShares or rival Vanguard.
The absence of the No. 1 and No. 3 sponsors from Schwab's line-up results from these firms having created their own free-trading arrangements. You can't get the most widely used funds from No. 2 ETF sponsor State Street STT -0.403899721448468% State Street Corp. U.S.: NYSE USD71.51 -0.29 -0.403899721448468% /Date(1422655258328-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 5799271 AFTER HOURS USD71.51 % Volume (Delayed 15m) : P/E Ratio 14.9916142557652 Market Cap 30344482028.3121 Dividend Yield 1.6780869808418404% Rev. per Employee 340163 More quote details and news » (STT), either. Schwab customers instead will have to use an equal-weight Guggenheim ETF if they want a commission-free U.S. sector fund. In ETFs as in any investment, there's no such thing as a free lunch.
AFTER A RELATIVELY QUIET start to the year, new ETF launches picked up the pace in mid-February. The area of focus says something about the investing climate. There are new income-themed funds that could tempt the yield-starved to take on riskier investments, and a pair that should appeal to investors who worry about the value of a dollar.
The income group includes Yorkville High Income Infrastructure MLP YMLI 0.6337098573300406% Yorkville High Income Infrastructure MLP ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 20.66 0.1301 0.6337098573300406% /Date(1422655200101-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 20516 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 5.808325266214908% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » ETF (YMLI), which adds to the dozen-and-more exchange-traded ways to buy into rich-yielding master limited partnerships. Market Vectors BDC Income BIZD -0.056433408577878104% Market Vectors BDC Income ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 17.71 -0.01 -0.056433408577878104% /Date(1422655198557-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 37188 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 9.734613212874082% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » ETF (BIZD) is a portfolio of business-development companies, a high-risk, high-reward niche akin to private equity. There's also the First Trust Preferred Securities and Income FPE -0.1049317943336831% First Trust Preferred Securities & Income ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 19.04 -0.02 -0.1049317943336831% /Date(1422655130182-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 137722 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield 2.697478991596639% Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » ETF (FPE). All three are expected to yield 5% or higher.
Amid fears of a currency war comes the actively managed Pimco Foreign Currency Strategy FORX 0.12608895002292525% PIMCO Foreign Currency Strategy Active ETF U.S.: NYSE Arca 43.675 0.055 0.12608895002292525% /Date(1422648859803-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 494 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » ETF (FORX), which uses a mix of fixed-income and non-dollar currency exposure, aiming to help investors "preserve their purchasing power." The CurrencyShares Singapore Dollar Trust FXSG -0.4770992366412214% CurrencyShares Singapore Dollar Trust U.S.: NYSE Arca 73.01 -0.35 -0.4770992366412214% /Date(1422651979024-0600)/ Volume (Delayed 15m) : 1000 P/E Ratio N/A Market Cap N/A Dividend Yield N/A Rev. per Employee N/A More quote details and news » (FXSG) is the other launch in this niche.
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Archos created quite a stir when it announced it was introducing a version of its Archos 5 Internet Media Tablet running on Android rather than its proprietary, Linux-based operating system. Here we review the super-slim Archos 5 Internet Tablet with 32GB of flash memory, priced at around £230. Two fatter models with hard drives are also available: a 160GB version for about £250 and a 500GB version for £290 or thereabouts.
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Out of the box, this version looks nearly identical to the 5 Internet Media Tablet that we reviewed last year. It's got the same attractive, glossy black coating on the front and sides, along with a metallic finish on the rear that's something of a fingerprint magnet.
With the interface almost entirely based around the large, 122mm (4.8-inch) touchscreen, there are only two physical buttons on the case -- the power button and a volume rocker switch. We love the fact that Archos has integrated a small metallic kickstand into the rear of the case. That's something that other manufacturers often omit.
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The Oak Park Heights City Council is considering a proposal to open a sporting goods store and shooting range inside an abandoned Denny Hecker auto dealership.
The empty 56,000-square-foot Ford building at 12969 60th St. would come back to life, but with a new look, if Minnesota Outdoor Shooting Sports wins approval for the project. The project would include the store, two indoor gun ranges, a small gym and lounge, offices, storage/warehouse space and a coffee shop with exterior patio.
The building's shape would remain much the same, but improvements would include warmer colors, a new entrance canopy, landscaping and a "water feature" at the entrance.
Large gun ranges would dominate interior space, but no outdoor ranges would be permitted, City Administrator Eric Johnson told the City Council. The proposed sporting business is next door to a proposed Pizza Ranch restaurant.
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The Cottage Grove City Council earlier this month amended its parking ordinance to reduce the number of months in which on-street parking is restricted during snow removal.
The ordinance changed the period in which residents are prohibited from parking on the street — between the hours of 2 and 6 a.m. — to "between November 1 and March 31," shaving two months off the restricted period, officials said. Previously, on-street parking was banned between Oct. 1 and April 30.
Police will not immediately start enforcing the amended ordinance, which went into effect Oct. 9, but instead place fliers on violating vehicles "as an educational tool," officials said.
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The Friends of the Mississippi group is calling for volunteers to help clear nonnative bush from Cottage Grove Regional Park on Saturday, Nov. 2. Volunteers are needed from 9 a.m. to noon at the park, at 9940 Point Douglas Road.
FMR ecologist Karen Schik will be on hand to coordinate the group's "Buckthorn Bust," helping volunteers "restore this landscape by hauling or cutting brush," according to a Washington County news release.
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Motorists should avoid the construction zone at the intersection of Hwy. 36 and Hwy. 95 from Sunday at 6 p.m. to Monday at 5 a.m., the Minnesota Department of Transportation said. During this time, crews will complete a major traffic switch as part of the St. Croix bridge project.
Motorists should expect delays throughout the construction zone. Southbound Hwy. 95 traffic will use a signed detour. Northbound Hwy. 95 traffic will not have a detour, MnDOT said.
When the traffic switch is complete, motorists will see a new ramp with a traffic signal between Hwy. 36 and Hwy. 95, new lanes on Hwy. 95 with portions of single-lane and two-lane traffic in each direction, and single-lane traffic on the new eastbound lanes of Hwy. 36.
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In Time for Black History Month, Library Acquires Thousands of Historical Photographs
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ITHACA, N.Y. (Jan. 31, 2012) – Cornell University Library's extensive new collection of African-American photographs contains impressive images of iconic leaders of the civil rights movement and world-changing events — but the less momentous moments in black history make up an equally important part of the collection.
Among the nearly 2,000 items, recently donated by Beth and Stephan Loewentheil, are images of African Americans going about their regular lives in the 19th and 20th centuries.
"Certainly, African Americans were fighting for justice in this country, but at the same time, they were celebrating births and graduations and marriages, mourning deaths, holding family reunions, buying new homes and cars and clothes — the stuff of everyday life," said Katherine Reagan, curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts. "Those things can be easily overshadowed, but this collection provides a window into the lives of men and women who are so frequently underrepresented in the historical record."
Images in the collection depict the African-American experience from slavery in the agricultural antebellum South to celebrities of modern media-frenzied America.
"I'm thrilled about the collection for the possibilities it offers for research in African and African American Studies, especially as portraits like those in the new collection are hard to find today in both private and public collections," said Cheryl Finley, associate professor of art at Cornell. "Images such as these reveal volumes about the social, material, cultural and political lives of the people pictured as well as those who may have lived similar lives or had similar experiences."
First Day of Class at Cleveland's Beehive Elementary School (Associated Press Photograph, 1979)
Among the collection's most memorable images are striking photographs of Martin Luther King Jr. in a jail cell, rare tintypes of freed slaves and personal family photo albums. The photographs also encompass a wide diversity of formats: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, carte-de-visite photographs, albumen prints, Polaroids and more.
In honor of Black History Month, the Library's Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections will display a sample of the collection in the gallery space between Olin and Kroch libraries on Cornell's main campus in Ithaca, N.Y. The exhibition will open Wednesday, Feb. 1, and it is free and open to the public.
The collection will soon be open to researchers from all over the world and, Reagan added, "it has a tremendously high research value. It's a trove of material that will help scholars who are looking for a more comprehensive view of a period that saw enormous changes for people of color in the United States."
The African-American photographs are the newest component of the Beth and Stephan JD '75 Loewentheil Family Photographic Collection, a magnificent set of 16,000 historic images that make up a candid cross-section of the early American experience.
Many of those photographs are also currently on display on level 2B of the Carl A. Kroch Library as part of the major exhibition, "Dawn's Early Light: The First 50 Years of American Photography."
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To learn more, visit the Rare and Manuscript Division's website or the Library online at library.cornell.edu.
Shoeshine boy working on Bourbon Street, New Orleans. The Loewentheil Collection assembles a variety of interesting and revealing "casual snapshots" of people at work. This undated photograph shows a shoeshine boy working in front of a library. |
Unidentified photo of a man smoking a cigarette and shaving another man's head. | |
Attica Prison Uprising. The Loewentheil Collection contains images of many historical events including this photograph taken during the Attica prison riot in September 1971. |
Hand-colored portraits. The invention of photography in 1839 brought the ability to capture accurate and affordable images of loved ones. The Loewentheil Family Collection features thousands of family portraits from the 1860s through the 1970s. The two unrelated tintypes paired here are both anonymous and undated. |
Josephine Baker. Images of actors, musicians, and other entertainers are featured in the Loewentheil Collection, including this portrait of Josephine Baker, the American singer and dancer who found fame in Paris in the 1920s. |
Heliton, Bob. "Angela Davis." (1969). The Loewentheil Collection provides a pictorial record of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. Angela Davis is a political activist, author, and scholar. |


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A) HBR + Mg ->
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Next, balance with coefficients.
2HBr + Mg ==> MgBr2 + H2
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I see 2 H on both sides.
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HBr + Al =
Write the produces.
HBr + Al ==> AlBr3 + H2
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I note quickly that I need a 2HBr to balance H on the right but a 3HBr to balance Br on the right. When that happens, we know neither 3 nor 2 will work so we go with 6.
6HBr + 2Al ==> 2AlBr3 + 3H2.
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I see 6 H on left and right.
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I see 2 Al on left and right.
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6HBr + 2Al -> 2AlBr3 + 3H2.
My questions are that how did they get "6" Hbr? Also where did the 2Al come from, For the product part, I know that the three comes from Aluminum, but why do they not add it in the first part. This is really confusing me now, I think I'm forgetting this whole balancing stuff. DrBob222 please bring me back on track.
The 2 for 2AlBr3 is used because that's the only way to get 6 Br atoms and that forces us to place a 2 for Al on the left.
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James and Thompson, incidentally, are the only players to win the award more than twice this season. They've each won it three times. James continues to add to his NBA record by winning for the 48th time in his career.
To read more or comment...CLEVELAND: Thirteen thoughts for 13 rebounds from Kevin Love in an impressive 108-98 victory Sunday over the Oklahoma City Thunder…
1. LeBron James began the day seventh in the league in Player Efficiency Rating, or PER, which combines all of a player's statistics into one number. He's second in the league in scoring and his team can't win when he doesn't play.
2. So why, exactly, is he never mentioned in the MVP race?
3. It's striking to me how little consideration James is receiving when discussing the top candidates this season. The Cavs are 24-12 when he plays and 1-8 when he doesn't. If the definition of the MVP award is a player's value to his team, I'm not sure how much more proof is necessary. That .667 winning percentage when he plays matches the Wizards' winning percentage this season – and they're ranked second in the East.
To read more or comment...CLEVELAND – LeBron James outdueled Thunder forward Kevin Durant in the only battle this season between the two most recent Most Valuable Players and the Cavaliers won their sixth straight with a 108-98 victory against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Sunday.
James had 34 points and seven rebounds and Kevin Love had 19 points and 13 rebounds for the Cavs, who look like a different team since a pair of trades in recent weeks have reshaped the roster.
Durant had 32 points and nine assists and guard Russell Westbrook had 22 points, 11 assists and nine rebounds for the Thunder, who closed a five-game trip through the Eastern Conference with a pair of losses.
After going scoreless in the third quarter, James scored 12 points in the fourth, including 8 within the first 2 1/2 minutes to give the Cavs a 91-80 lead with 9:41 left. Guard Kyrie Irving had 21 points and six assists and guard J.R. Smith scored 14 points for the Cavs, who led by as many as 13 in the fourth quarter.
To read more or comment...CLEVELAND: Dion Waiters was back on the Cavaliers' practice court Saturday, only this time he was wearing blue and orange. Two weeks after the three-team trade that sent him to Oklahoma City, Waiters praised the Cavs organization and said he felt like a move was coming eventually.
Waiters has communicated with Kyrie Irving and Tristan Thompson since the trade, he said, but he has not heard from LeBron James. He said his recent comment that Thunder players "give me the ball. Like, I touch the ball," was twisted and blown out of proportion.
"I said, 'I get the ball, I get to feel it, I get to feel the game out.' They took it and twisted it around a little bit," Waiters said from the Cavs' old practice floor inside Quicken Loans Arena. "I guess they knew I was coming back home, we needed a story to talk about."
Waiters is playing more minutes with the Thunder than he was with the Cavs, but actually is getting fewer passes than he was with the Cavs. Russell Westbrook, Reggie Jackson and Kevin Durant are each passing the ball to him about once a game, according to NBA stats. Irving passed the ball to him more than 5 times a game, James passed to him 3.5 times a night while Kevin Love and Thompson passed to him 3 times a game.
To read more or comment...CLEVELAND: Thirty-three thoughts for 33 first-quarter points in a 129-90 rout Friday over the Charlotte Hornets…
1. When they sat injured in the locker room during the second half of what became a 109-101 loss at Atlanta late last month, LeBron James and Kevin Love spoke about what they envisioned for this team. It certainly wasn't six-game losing streaks, dismal defensive efforts and embarrassing losses to teams like the Pistons, Kings and 76ers.
2. Now as Timofey Mozgov stands in the lane catching lob dunks and absorbing space defensively, as Iman Shumpert takes the floor to a roaring ovation and J.R. Smith splashes off-balance 3-pointers, James' vision is coming into focus.
3. "This is the team that I envisioned," James said. "This is the style of basketball I envisioned. Obviously the points we put up, I don't envision that every night. But how we share the ball, how we defend, that should be our staple every night."
To read more or comment...CLEVELAND – The Cavaliers enjoyed their biggest halftime lead in franchise history and rolled easily to a 129-90 victory Friday night against the Charlotte Hornets.
Forward LeBron James had 25 points, nine assists and six rebounds in a season-low 27 minutes. Guard J.R. Smith scored 21 points – all on 3-pointers – as the Cavs set a season high in scoring, won their most lopsided game of the season and won their fifth straight. The Hornets lost for just the second time in their last 10 games.
The Cavs shot 61 percent in the first half and led 75-40 at the break, their most points in a half in at least 12 years. They constantly beat the Hornets down the floor in transition and had open looks at the basket throughout the night. Their defense, meanwhile, held an opponent under 42 percent shooting for the third-consecutive game.
Cavs center Timofey Mozgov had 14 points and 10 rebounds, guard Kyrie Irving scored 18 points and backup center Tristan Thompson grabbed 10 rebounds. None of the starters played the fourth quarter, otherwise the Cavs could've made a run at becoming the first time in 30 years to have all five starters score at least 15 points in three consecutive games. Kevin Love finished with just nine points.
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