Re: Surrogate factoring, update

From: James Harris (jstevh_at_msn.com)
Date: 07/10/04 

Date: 10 Jul 2004 16:22:18 -0700

Matthijs Hebly <heeb@iname.com> wrote in message news:<hXUHc.98963$3N6.21454@amsnews05.chello.com>...
> James Harris wrote:
> > It's been a while since I mentioned surrogate factoring, and I'll
> <znib>
> Maybe you should put your method to the test? Let your PC make a huge
> composite of two primes (something in the magnitude used for RSA), and
> challenge yourself to factor it, without looking at the answer. If your
> method is too slow to do by hand, then try to make a program to do it
> for you. I guess as soon as you come with real proof, people might even
> start listening to you. I'm no mathematician, so I'm in no position to
> judge your method. The way to prove it to someone like me would be to
> actually break RSA. I'm sure you would gain everybody's respect if you
> would do it. So? Do it.
>
> Matthijs.

Theoretical work can be VERY trying to many people. They want to see
THE RESULT and have most of the details nailed down and have
CERTAINTY.

However, no matter how certain so much knowledge that is tossed about
today is today, way back there were people at the beginning who were
lost and looking, trying to figure out what was going on.

>From small beginnings come human civilization itself.

Everything around you, everything that is prized or feared goes back
to some idea that some person was tossing around some time ago.

Here and now though, there's this idea I'm tossing around, and it's at
the beginnings.

Will it be a super idea, a potent idea?

I'm not certain, though I definitely think it's worth discussing.

Now I know for some of you that's not the answer you want. You want
certainty. You want things nailed down and a fully fleshed out
product or theory.

Well that's not science or discovery. That's about time and
persistence with the ideas that pass all the tests.

Most ideas don't pass all the tests.

At the beginning, there's little certainty, much guessing, and not a
lot of detail.

James Harris

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