Quote from: ndnhc on January 31, 2015, 12:13:43 PM

Quote from: bitspill on January 31, 2015, 12:01:00 PM

Evil-Knievel is this algorithm related to your project over at https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=929196.0 ?

I was looking at curve25519 and notice that it's starting parameter is x=9

Quote from: ndnhc on January 31, 2015, 11:57:43 AM

I read that, but what is 'a' exactly? If it is an unknown constant, then how will I find when the said result will occur. Is it 1? Or does the value of a has no impact on the result (but it certainly does)? Or on calculation the value of 'a' will be given?

I think I did not understand the question properly. Huh

That I cannot answer. I'm currently doing some reading on the curves and trying to see what I can get out of it. (so far not much Wink

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But I know nothing about coding. I am trying kind of mathematically. It is okay, right?

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I just need OP to tell me whether the results I got are correct or not to proceed any further. I want to be sure whether I am in the correct understanding of it or not.

Thanks for the link. Now i think 'a' is a value input by the user.

Mathematically as long as the "a" value remains constant during each new iteration then the effect it has is constant - it's not unnecessary, it just doesn't need to be evaluated for, so it should be fine to set as any integer and leave it alone.

As got the results you got, I don't think you are substituting the equation back into itself for each new x value, I think you are just increasing x by 1 and then repeating the calculation. What you want to be doing is leaving x constant (in this case 9) and then reevaluating each iteration until your new x value matches the next incremented integer value of x (in this case 10).

If I've misunderstood anything, feel free to correct me. That's just how I understand it.