Re: JSH: What's happening now?

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 16:32:54 GMT, Felix Rawlings <fraw@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

>On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 07:11:48 -0700, jstevh wrote:
>
>> Except with people like me, who, if it's easy to work out, can now use
>> the surrogate factoring theorem and factor really big numbers.
>
> OK. What is the prime number decomposition of the following integer?
>
>15431856031145175332728672604879981081802972543767297051094769743177
>38328212181288715361632657691537849923987029266061969569329027636689
>99039296765468882948501532515863157423477368555982691445322282956639
>35591245526341416292101811599346897787590240341354170600643967815760
>5482422003406343466260187756426805859

_My_ algorithm (the one that I'm not going to tell anyone
about lest it destroy the world economy) shows that there
is a 95% chance that this factors as 3*7.


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David C. Ullrich
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