Re: Factorizaton idea, revisited

From: Michael Amling (nospam_at_nospam.com)
Date: 04/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 12:29:43 GMT

Douglas A. Gwyn wrote:

> James Harris wrote:
>
>>>> "Gary Shannon" <gary@fiziwig.com> wrote in message
>>>> news:<6b302915d9081b50c33e6fa9f68c72e3@news.teranews.com>...
>>>>
>>>>> M = 15645595639 the integer to be factored
>>>>> T = 15645595640 ...
>>>>> T^4 = 59919531205943184213873498032430492160000 ...
>>>>> Now what's the next step?
>>>>
>>>> You factor T. ...
>
>
> Sorry, but I'm still wondering what the "j" and "k"
> are supposed to be. Is k a subscript, exponent, or
> factor?

   You mean, they're not the quaternions?
>
> Also, it seems you have replaced the "factor an
> N-digit number" with "factor an N-digit number",
> which on its face doesn't seem like it helps any.
> Is there supposed to be a recursion? If so it
> doesn't seem to converge fast enough.

--Mike Amling

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