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I want to implement $\beta^3-1$ as hardware and I don't have negative numbers, so I need to write $\beta^3-1$ as linear combination of different degrees of $\beta$ (finite numbers of $1 \beta \beta^2 \beta^3 ...)$. Is there any way to do this?

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  • One factorization is $(\beta-1)(\beta^2+\beta+1)$, but it is not exactly a linear combination. But if you already have up to $(.)^2$ stored maybe it would be fast. – mathreadler Mar 05 '17 at 15:21
  • The problem is that I can't implement minus so I can't implement $\beta -1$ – user137927 Mar 05 '17 at 15:22
  • Ah. How typical. Well you could just make a loop adding up $\beta-1$ times by setting the lower end of the loop to 1 higher. – mathreadler Mar 05 '17 at 15:23

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You can first write $\beta^3-1 = (\beta-1)(\beta^2+\beta+1)$

Then calculate $\beta^2+\beta+1$.

The fast-to-implement uncomplicated way would now be ($O(\beta)$ complexity):

sum = beta2+beta+1;
for(int i=1;i<beta;i++)
   ack+=sum;

The -1 will switch the sign of the last bit, until it first becomes 1. So that would invite for a potential $O(\log(\beta))$ algorithm by keeping track of bits in a bit-shift loop, but that is probably over-course.

EDIT:

For the over-course approach with $O(\log( \beta))$ complexity you can read this question I just stumbled upon.

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