Re: Simple answer, surrogate factoring
From: C. Bond (cbond_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: 03/04/05
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Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 21:13:36 GMT
fiziwig wrote:
> I've followed your postings off and on for several years. I, too, am
> an amateur interested in the factoring problem, and probably more
> willing than most to give you the benefit of the doubt. I suspect that
> there is a very fast factoring algorithm just waiting to be discovered,
> and it's likely it might come from a completely unexpected direction.
> I don't see any compelling reason why it might not be discovered by an
> amateur such as your or me. I've pondered this problem since my high
> school days in 1960 but haven't accomplished anything more exciting
> that re-inventing Pollard's rho before I knew of it's existence. But,
> fool that I am, I keep studying and trying new approaches.
>
> But I have to ask one question. As I recall, I think I asked you this
> question a year or two ago and didn't get an answer. The question is
> simply this: Could you take a reasonably small number, say 8 or 10
> digits, and DEMONSTRATE, step by step how your method would be applied
> to factoring that number. Can I see how you use it to factor an easy
> number like 50,985,511 for example?
>
> --gary
You are about to discover the biggest difference between yourself and
James. The perfectly reasonable request you have posted, which you would
certainly honor if you were James, will now be completely ignored by him.
(Synchronize your watches and see how long you wait for a reasonable
answer!)
-- There are two things you must never attempt to prove: the unprovable -- and the obvious. -- Democracy: The triumph of popularity over principle. -- http://www.crbond.com
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