Re: JSH: What's happening now?

On Sun, 10 Apr 2005 23:05:08 -0400, Matt Gutting wrote:

> David C. Ullrich wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> You must be using an Infinite Improbability Generator.
>

This probably explains the whale under my bed.

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