comments about theory and practice of higher descent
The latter is not very complete at this time. (1997/3/13) The file refers to two other summary documents: a letter from siksek explaining higher descents, and a file about solving norm equations. There's also and illustration of the effectiveness and speed of these algoithms.
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Recent work on finding points on conics now provides very rapid computation of these points. For working code and analysis, go to a companion directory legendre