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from: Jasen Betts
date: 2004-03-29 00:07:54
subject: squares

Hi All.

are there shorcuts to tell if a big integer (bignum) is not a square?
(like without trying to square-root it.)

even if they only work sometimes.

so far I know it's got to be a multiple of 4 or one more than a multiple of
4

are there others?

 -=> Bye <=-

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