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Finite Field Assembly: A Language for Emulating GPUs on CPU

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42 points muragekibicho | 1 comments | 14 Jan 25 09:35 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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pwdisswordfishz ◴[18 Jan 25 01:49 UTC] No.42745070[source]▶
> Field order (the number of elements your field can hold). i.e you can store 8 * 9 * 11 elements in the field

I thought a finite field's order has to be a prime power.

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1. markisus ◴[18 Jan 25 03:24 UTC] No.42745527[source]▶
Yes you are right. According to Wikipedia it was proven in 1893. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finite_field

I’m dubious of this project.