I’ve been writing up the ideas that went into the M4RIE library for dense linear algebra over small extensions of . I think it is now in a state to be readable enough to up a PDF of the current draft online. Hence, here it is. While the paper does explain what we mean by “Travolta tables” it doesn’t explain why we call them that way … but the image below does:
I just realised that I should have called these things “Newton-John tables” which sounds way cooler than “Travolta tables”. Is it too late to change the name?