Re: JSH: Nearly done

From: Nora Baron (norabaron_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/27/05 

Date: 27 Jan 2005 14:39:22 -0800

Rick Decker wrote:
> jstevh@msn.com wrote:
> > Mark Nudelman wrote:
> >
> >>jstevh@msn.com wrote:

[snip]

>
> > Now, all the math at the lower level has been worked out, while I
> > haven't yet proven conclusively that you can get rational x's at
will,
> > and even for very large numbers.
>
> You can *always* find rational solutions for x. That's not a deep
> result.
> >
> > Maybe for really big numbers rational x's become difficult to find.
> >
> > But at this point, I don't see a mathematical reason why they
should.
> >
> > I think it would be quite useful if one of you could settle the
> > question.
> >
> Done. I'll give a proof if anyone's interested.
>

Harris still seems to think that finding rational x might
be a problem. In your other post on this, the one in which
you used the Mighty Harris Method to factor M = 15, you noted that
it is possible, even easy, to find rational a_1 and a_2, and from this
one easily gets rational x. I didn't see immediately how to
find such - perhaps it IS easy - I haven't put much effort into
it - but I wouldn't mind if you spelled it out.

Given a rational x, Harris will then look at its numerator
and try to find primes which divide M. Of course I would
think you need some assurance that such primes are not also
in the denominators of the things that x is multiplied by -
I would guess that is very unlikely in a real live problem
because those factors will be extremely large.

Harris himself has declined to give the details that you have
given - it is interesting that your presentation is much
clearer than his - but he keeps referring to his Yahoo group
and the paper that is available. So I thought: I will just
join the Yahoo group and have a look at it. So I joined.
Evidently 'norabaron' is already a name that is used by some
other member of Yahoo, so I had to change my name to 'baron_nora'.
That worked and I was given permissions to access the files
on the website. However the file that contained the paper was
empty. Perhaps Harris was revising it. That was yesterday.
Today when I accessed the site I was not allowed in - the
message on the screen said I was BANNED FROM THE GROUP by the
controller of the group. This controller, whoever he is, must
have seen right through the baron_nora disguise. Pretty astute,
eh?

I cannot tell you what a profound sense of rejection I felt
at that point. Banned! (Sob, sniff, etc.)

So here is the Harris behavior. He makes huge claims and brags
incessantly that they are BEYOND BRILLIANT, etc.. He doesn't
give the details. He complains that evil mathematicians are out
to suppress and misrepresent him. Even though my post in this
thread is probably the ONLY one that says what he has done here
appears to be a new idea, even though I am maybe the ONLY person
to have said that it might be useful, even though I made an honest
effort to be fair in commenting on it, even though I do not regularly
call him an idiot, even though he posts his group website address
repeatedly and urges people to read his paper there, it is clear
that Harris does not want a mathematician to look at what he has
done - he wants us to recognize his genius and agree with what
he has done WITHOUT EVEN SEEING IT, and if we don't, the world
as we know it will come to an end and we will all be killed or
at least fired, thrown in jail and tortured by methods which are
not allowed under the Geneva Convention but are allowed by the
current nominee for U.S. Attorney General. Sob! Sniff!
Nora B.

>
> Regards,
>
> Rick

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