On the Parallel Evaluation of Multivariate Polynomials

Laurent Hyafil

SIAM Journal on Computing · 1979 · 50 citations · 1 references

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Abstract

We prove that any multivariate polynomial P of degree d that can be computed with $C(P)$ multiplications-divisions can be computed in $O(\log d \cdot \log C(P))$ parallel steps and $O(\log d)$ parallel multiplicative steps.

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