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On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 20:56:06 -0000 (UTC), "Stephen Fuld"
<SFuld@alumni.cmu.edu.invalid> wrote:

>Good, I get that.  But Thomas' original discussion of the problem
>indicated that it was very parallel, so the question is, in your
>design, how many of those calculations can go in in parallel?

in a way, that's the wrong question.

If you need to have exponentiations and divides running in parallel
_on a single CPU_ because the problem isn't parallel _enough_ to
dispense with them being very tightly coupled... then, yes, that's a
reasonable question.

But _otherwise_ there is no limit on the number of calculations that
can take place in parallel, just throw more CPUs at the problem.

John Savard