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Jakob Breier j.breier at gmx.de
Thu Jul 10 23:46:54 CEST 2014


On 10.07.2014 21:12, Sree Harsha Totakura wrote:
> Or, you can add point B to point at infinity, (0, 1, 0) in jacobian
> coordinates, and then add the result to A to get A - B.
>
> So, this could be done as: A + B + INFINITY.

I don't usually follow this list, so there might be something really 
strange with the implementation I don't know of, but the point at 
infinity normally is the neutral element of the group. So A+B+Infinity = 
A+B.

Regards,
Jakob



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