Re: factoring massive numbers and geometry

From: Tom St Denis (tomstdenis_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: 15 Mar 2004 06:20:09 -0800

pubkeybreaker@aol.comstuff (Bob Silverman) wrote in message news:<20040315060523.03317.00001286@mb-m23.aol.com>...
> >
> >The best available right now looks like a prime factor sieve (trying every
> >possible prime number).
>
> May I suggest that before you make further
> pronouncements on this subject that you
> actually read about it first? Your post shows
> gross ignorance.
>
> Trial division by trying every possible prime divisor
> is one of the WORST methods available. And
> attempts by diophantine approximation (your
> approximation by straight line suggestion) are
> just as bad. Both are purely exponential time methods.
>
> What is it that compels people who are totally
> ignorant about a subject to make pronouncements
> about it?

While I generally agree with newbie self-righteous bashing in this
case the OP didn't proclaim anything. He asked about the geometry
methods, he didn't say they would work.

The more interesting fact of the matter is for all intents and
purposes the "experts" are 99% just as ignorant as the newbie when it
comes to bleeding edge stuff. Who knows, someone might find a much
faster NFS variant this year that you wouldn't have thought about.
Does this somehow invalidate your research into the subject?

Moral: Hold off the newbie bashing until they truly deserve it.

Tom

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