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A general purpose programming language and compiler

The Gilda language is intended to make it easier and to build high quality software. This is achieved by addressing issues with portability, reuse, ease of use, software maintenance, reliability, testing, and debugging. The language integrates several innovations with a clean and simple syntax.

Overview of the Gilda Programming Language

Design and Implementation of Iterative Loops

Hello World

Phonecode

64 Bit Primality Test

These primality tests extend Steve Worley's 32 bit primality test. They improve on Jim Sinclair's test that uses 7 SPRP tests. 32 bit numbers are checked with a single SPRP test, two are used for 49 bit numbers, and three for 64 bit numbers.

Numbers under 2^32 can be tested using the SPRP bases in: is.prime.32.base.data

Numbers from 2^32 to 2^64 can be tested using the base pairs in: is.prime.64.base.data

The is.prime.gg Gilda function determines if any 64 bit number is prime.
The list.is.prime.32.g program lists the bases used to test 32 bit numbers for primality.
It uses this sprp.gg implementation of the Strong Probable Prime test.

The sprp test can be substantially sped up with negligible overhead by interleaving it with trial division over small primes. A modulus by a small prime is computed in each iteration of the loop for Base ^ D mod N.

Numbers with 49 or fewer bits fit in a floating point double. The modulus can be computed by multiplying by the reciprocal of small primes that are pre-computed and stored in an array. Division is avoided and processors can perform floating point operations in parallel with integer operations.

This Visual C code, sprp_two_trial_49.c, computes 2^E mod N and trial division for small primes.

Likewise numbers with 50 to 64 bits needs to use integer division. Arithmetic operations can still be issued in parallel with the divisions to reduce the overhead of trial division. The sprp_two_trial.c procedure illustrates this strategy.

Primality testing was 1.4 times faster for 32 bit numbers, 2.4 times faster for numbers with 33 to 49 bits, and 4.75 times faster for 50 to 64 bit numbers. Even though integrating trial division finds more numbers to be composite, it's not that many more. These procedures can also be used as the first stage of factorization routines to take advantage of the trial division results.

Please let me know if you can verify any of these algorithms or suggest improvements. If you revise the Visual C code to work with other compilers, pass them along to me and I'll merge it with the samples and post them. You can also visit this page for recent progress involving the Miller-Rabin primality test.

Collatz Conjecture

The Collatz sequence is chaotic and cannot be resolved using conventional algebra. It poses a linear sequence problem and a circular sequence problem. These two papers use non-algebraic strategies to describe the underlying mechanics of the sequence.

This first paper uses Shannon entropy to analyze the linear problem for the Collatz Conjecture. An unbiased pseudo random number generator uses operations that generate values with an equal distribution of zero and one bits. The sequence does just that and as so an infinitely long run cannot be generated.

The second paper, circular problem for the Collatz Conjecture, derives bounds on the sequence. One set of bounds show that the starting value has to be very large to form a loop. Another set of bounds show the start is limited to very small values.

Integrated Preamp / Crossover / Tweeter-Midrange Audio Amplifier

Design notes for a high fidelity low cost stereo system.

Computer Memory

Nano-Memory Simulation

Securing Personal Portable Storage

New Computers Based On Non-Volatile Random Access Memory

Logic Programming

https://www.techneon.com/paper/rw_access.html

Publications

B. A. Berg, "Disentangling Exceptions", Brown University, December, 2008

https://cs.brown.edu/research/pubs/theses/masters/2009/berg.pdf

Ahmad, Berg, Cetintemel, Humphrey, Hwang, Jhingran, Maskey, Papaemmanouil, Rasin, Tatbul, Xing, Zdonik, "Distributed Operation in the Borealis Stream Processing Engine", 2nd International Conference on Geosensor Networks, Boston, MA, October 2006

https://www.cs.brown.edu/research/borealis/public/publications/sigmod05.demo.pdf

B. A. Berg, "A Distributed Catalog for the Borealis Stream Processing Engine", Brown University, May 31, 2006

https://www.cs.brown.edu/research/borealis/public/publications/distributed_catalog.pdf

Daniel V. Bailey, Bradley Berg, "Remote management interface using credentials associated with respective access control intervals", United States Patent: 9,455,977, September 27, 2016

https://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=9,455,977.PN.&OS=PN/9,455,977&RS=PN/9,455,977