Re: Now you can see, my "crank" status

From: Joe Peschel (jpeschel_at_no.spam.org)
Date: 04/19/05 

Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:51:15 -0000

jstevh@msn.com wrote in
news:1113863543.658616.78060@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com:

> Joe Peschel wrote:

>> RSA is offering a nice chunk of money to anyone who can factor a few
> big
>> composite numbers.
>>
>> J
>>
>
> Yeah, sure, they offered that money with the strong belief that
> factoring was a hard problem, not possibly a relatively simple one
> where mathematicians just ignored a basic case.
>

If factoring those numbers is simple, you might as well start factoring.
You could use the money to finance your research on the really hard
problems.

J 

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