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Originally Posted by paul0
Now that I can generate a sublattice basis and reduce it, I think I'm ready to write a lattice siever. However, there seems to be more parameters I don't know how to set:
1) the sieving region  and 
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These depend on the size of the composite, the size of the factor base, and the number
of large primes.
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2) the threshold for sieving point values before checking it for smoothness
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Depends on the number and size of the large primes.
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3) how do I choose special q's? outside the factor base?
GGNFS does. I don't.
4) (I'll probably think of more as I go along)
How do I set these parameters?
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