Re: JSH: SF Algorithm

[hagman <google@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]
My conjecture is that *any* change away from JSH's method is an
improvement :)

Actually, that's historically true of many JSH factoring "methods". With
so many pointless free variables and searches, there are many ways to
rearrange the details, but time after time he somehow manages to suggest
what turns out to be the (or very close to the) least efficient way to
proceed with the mess.

I figured that's one of the reasons he became increasingly unwilling to
suggest "an algorithm" to flesh out his piles of equations and
excruciatingly muddy technical prose; i.e., plain embarrassment. Much
easier for him to maintain the (self-)illusion of genius if he can rant at
others for being "too stupid" to make turn his brilliant insights into a
kick-ass algorithm.
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