Testing the time to factor big integers in Python with SymPy compared to Matheamtica

We often want to reduce something that's inherently two-dimensional into something one-dimensional. We want to turn graph into a list. And we'd like to do this with some kind of faithfulness. We'd like things that are close together in 2D space to be close…

Counting the number of points on an elliptic curve using a crude algorithm, a better algorithm, and the best algorithm.