Re: More math stuff, truth and social reality

From: Wayne Brown (fwbrown_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 03/10/05 

Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 20:09:04 GMT

In sci.math jstevh@msn.com wrote:
>
> I'm not interested in putting out a working surrogate factoring
> algorithm in public, but I find it amazing that so many of you are so
> blithely acting as if it doesn't matter if I'm correct.

As far as I'm concerned, it doesn't matter. If the world is so fragile
that you can destroy it by releasing a factoring algorithm, then it's
too shoddy to deserve to survive anyway. If you can do it, then go
ahead and do it ASAP. 

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Wayne Brown  (HPCC #1104)  | "When your tail's in a crack, you improvise
fwbrown@bellsouth.net      |  if you're good enough.  Otherwise you give
                           |  your pelt to the trapper."
"e^(i*pi) = -1"  -- Euler  |           -- John Myers Myers, "Silverlock"

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