Re: Factoring paper is wrong

From: Simon Johnson (Ckwop_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: 15 Jun 2004 01:40:54 -0700

jstevh@msn.com (James Harris) wrote in message news:<3c65f87.0406131540.6e7ea15d@posting.google.com>...
> My apologies but the paper that I thought solved the factoring problem
> had a dumb mistake in it

I'll invoke the fundamental theorem of mathematicians:

"The quality of a mathematician is inversely proportional to the
number of incorrect proofs they produce."

That makes you decidably amateur. Not that that's a bad thing. I'm an
amateur but don't have delusions of grandeur. You lack the requisite
skill to create an efficient factoring algorithm.

There are only a handful of people in the world with the knowledge to
significantly advance the state of the art and you're not one of them.

Simon.

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