Factoring, sf, and reasonable requests

jstevh_at_msn.com
Date: 02/18/05 

Date: 18 Feb 2005 04:41:27 -0800

What I did was find a previously unknown factoring method.

If mathematicians were what people supposed then they wouldn't be able
to sit back, and ignore such a major find, making the unreasonable
request that unless I can factor RSA numbers, it's of no importance.

That's because supposedly mathematicians are curious about mathematics,
supposedly at least some of them care about math for math's sake, and
most importantly, they have a social responsibility to carefully
consider results in the area of factoring as it's important for
Internet security.

The technique I found is so simple that it takes just a few paragraphs
to explain it, while working algorithms may necessarily be more
complex:

Ax= Az(-Az +/- sqrt((Az - 2M^2)^2 - 4TM^2))/(2j^2 - 2Az)

Az= Ax(-Ax +/- sqrt((Ax - 2j^2)^2 + 4Tj^2))/(2M^2 - 2Ax)

where T = M^2 - j^2

Here you have a two equations defining rationals Ax and Az, where M is
the number to be factored and j is an integer you pick to try and
factor it.

I noted that by working backwards--using an M for which you have the
factorization--you can see that for an integer Az that factors M, the
rational Ax has a denominator that has the same prime factors as T.

I'm saying there are rules governing how the system of equations works.

Some posters have spent a lot of time claiming my discovery is random.

If they are right, then it will *perfectly* generate random numbers
with that backwards test, which would also be news, which is why you'll
see posters avoiding my point in this area!!!

They are not about what's true, but about convincing. So they avoid
facts that show they are wrong.

You see, there are no known *perfectly* random number generating
systems outside of quantum mechanical systems.

Yup, quantum mechanical systems are the only ones where what are
generally accepted to be perfectly random numbers being generated.

Otherwise you have what are called pseudo-random number generators.

If I found a perfectly random number generator, then that would be big
news.

But it's not actually a random number generator, as the backwards test
would show for those who do it!

Major math results are this way: you can't escape them with reason, so
posters simply are unreasonable!

The problem here is that their lack of reason can give safe haven to
people who *do* figure out how to get sf to work, who then use it to
create mayhem around the world, as people are convinced it can't work,
until the evidence is overwhelming.

So why are mathematicians NOT what most people suppose? Why are they
not these brilliant and wonderful people who act in favor of humanity
instead of against it?

How can they deliberately avoid important mathematical discoveries
without regard to the consequences for others or even without regard
for the inevitability of getting caught?

The simple answer is that your fantasy of what a "mathematician" of
today is, does not create one. These are human beings with a society
of their own, and they like their society, and its structure.

Mathematics allows people outside of their social structure--like
me--to make major discoveries, which disrupts their social world.

It's like if the president of the United States could be unseated by a
janitor who just happened to make a major discovery!!!

They don't like that possibility, so they remove it by simply ignoring
results from outside of their society, which is easy for them with
"pure math" results, but here it's harder and could be fatal for others
with a factoring result.

They're trying anyway.

Think about my example with the president and a janitor.

Mathematics doesn't pick discoverers, so mathematicians pick what
discoverers they'll acknowledge to keep away the social disruption of
people they consider socially beneath them from coming in at the top of
their society because of a major discovery.

So they lie.

James Harris

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