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Comment by pwdisswordfishz

5 months ago

> Field order (the number of elements your field can hold). i.e you can store 8 * 9 * 11 elements in the field

I thought a finite field's order has to be a prime power.

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markisus  5 months ago

Yes you are right. According to Wikipedia it was proven in 1893. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_field

I’m dubious of this project.

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