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by db48x 2644 days ago
In fact, in this case the algorithm is only intended for numbers with 2^4096 bits. See section 5 of the paper:

  In this section we present the main integer multiplication
  algorithm. We actually give a family of algorithms,
  parameterised by a dimension parameter d > 2. Let n_0 :=
  2^(d^12) > 2^4096, and suppose that we wish to multiply
  integers with n bits. For n < n_0, we may use any convenient
  base-case multiplication algorithm, such as the classical
  O(n^2) algorithm.