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by jaeckel 695 days ago
If you're interested in even more details you could also have a look at Tom's book about bignum arithmetics. C.f. third paragraph of https://github.com/libtom/libtommath#summary

The library evolved since then, so the algorithm documentation only exists in code nowadays.

FTR I'm involved in the project as maintainer.