Re: Gist of surrogate factoring theorem

From: N. Silver (mathelp_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 04/10/05 

Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:04:27 GMT

Rick Decker wrote:
> JSH wrote:

>> How would you know which way to go?

> That's immaterial, as you imply. The problem still remains that
> your theorem...

Decker writes "your" as opposed to "the" so he doesn't have to
put quotes around the word "theorem."

> presented in your paper (which might be correct,
> though there are two unimportant errors in your exposition and one
> unproved assertion) still has no proof that the "rational factors" you
> find actually give any reliable nontrivial integer factors of M.

which is the whole ball game.

> Fix that and you might have something.

If you can prove something, you might have a proof.