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In this paper we have tried to demonstrate how sparse techniques can be used to increase the effectiveness of the modular algorithms of Brown and Collins. These techniques can be used for an extremely wide class of problems and can applied to a number of different algorithms including Hensel's lemma. We believe this work has finally laid to rest the bad zero problem.
Much of the work here is the direct result of discussion with Barry Trager and Joel Moses whose help we wish to acknowledge.
This work was supported, in part, by the United States Department of Energy under Contract Number E(11-1)-3070 and by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant NSG 1323.
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Zippel, R. (1979). Probabilistic algorithms for sparse polynomials. In: Ng, E.W. (eds) Symbolic and Algebraic Computation. EUROSAM 1979. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 72. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-09519-5_73
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