Re: Prime factorization

From: *** T. Winter (***.Winter_at_cwi.nl)
Date: 09/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 00:16:49 GMT

In article <873c13focf.fsf@nonospaz.fatphil.org> Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> writes:
> willem@bermon-dot-net.no-spam.invalid (Wilhelm) writes:
...
> > Well i certainly did not come here to get flamed or pushed into the
> > ground. So my idea isn't going to work on 100digit big primes but
> > it's doing quite nicely on big prime numbers and it does work nicely
> > as a prime number generator.
>
> I admit to being blunt, perhaps unnecessarily so. However, please
> see things from our view - you appeared to do no research, not
> even a simple googling for factorisation methods, before you came
> here and asked your question. If you'd have done the research then
> 1) You'd find your answers without waiting for others to reply.
> 2) You'd not have annoy the grumpy regulars here
> 3) You'd find bucket-loads more information

One thing that bothered me was that his method was secret at first.
Bob Silverman already commented on that. 

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