Re: JSH: Nearly done

bryant_j_j_at_yahoo.com
Date: 01/25/05 

Date: 24 Jan 2005 16:53:06 -0800

Nora Baron wrote:
> jstevh@msn.com wrote:
> > There has been a lot of verbiage flying back and forth related to
my
> > theory and method for factoring that I call surrogate factoring.
> >
>
> We are very definitely not yet beyond brilliant. As for "looping
> through the entire field of rationals", nonsense. Harris is dealing
> with a simple system of three equations which can be solved in
> closed form. Sometimes the solutions will be rational. The
> hyperbole here is really pretty revolting. I have never seen a
> serious mathematician brag like this about something that might not
> even work.
>

well Harris isn't a serious mathematician. he's an amateur crank.

>
> Certainly the program proves nothing, since Harris himself has
> said that it only works about 50% of the time on small numbers,
> and the few speeds he has quoted are not at all impressive.
>
> I am deleting the rest here, which is mainly unsupported and
> rather offensive counting-chickens-before-they-are-hatched
> bragging and unjustified abuse of 'the mathematical establish-
> ment'.
>
> Nora B.
>

you are too kind Nora to explain to other what this crank Harris is
doing.

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