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16323 chrisdarroch Send Email Mar 30, 2005
11:41 am
I feel that I have a very short, robust and simple to understand proof of GC. The only reason that I have not released it, is that I have many differing and...
16324 ratwain Send Email Mar 30, 2005
2:39 pm
I think I can get to 10 different triplets that sum to 5449. The widest fanout in the process was 1301 ways to represent 1307. I can provide C source, the 10...
16325 jbrennen Send Email Mar 30, 2005
2:57 pm
... It seems that we used different rules. Your rules seem to permit "back-tracking" of one or two of the primes, while my rules do not. Two different...
16326 Robin Garcia
sopadeajo2001 Send Email
Mar 30, 2005
6:08 pm
I am an amateur and so cannot advice you. I sometimes think that Fermat (who was a true amateur) might have truly discovered a simple and marvelous proof of...
16327 € ¢Ð’ºÐ°Ð»Ð°Ð±Ð¸Ð½ € ...
culturevolut... Send Email
Mar 30, 2005
7:01 pm
Hi to all. I'm new to this newsgroup and first of all I'm interested whether there's any program implementation of AKS algorithm open for public access. If...
16328 chrisdarroch Send Email Mar 30, 2005
7:56 pm
Thankyou for your consideration, Robin. Thankyou for mentioning the unmentionable (money). I would have my proof ready and released within a week, if I thought...
16329 Décio Luiz Gazzoni...
deciogazzoni Send Email
Mar 30, 2005
8:34 pm
I hereby request that Chris Darroch be moderated. He lost track of mathematics and began talking about bets and money and so on again. As I believe the latter...
16330 Mark Underwood
marku606 Send Email
Mar 30, 2005
9:13 pm
Hi Dick As you can tell I hurried - in fact I looked only at the first five rows of the first column, and then only the first row of the second column! How's...
16331 Gary Shannon
fiziwig Send Email
Mar 30, 2005
9:17 pm
Here's a different method of factoring I've been playing with. There's nothing really inovative in this, it's just a slightly different approach to a ...
16332 Décio Luiz Gazzoni...
deciogazzoni Send Email
Mar 30, 2005
9:35 pm
Sorry for top-replying, but here goes my analysis. What you're doing is basically a pseudorandom cycle method of sorts (a la Pollard rho), except that you try...
16333 Mark Underwood
marku606 Send Email
Mar 31, 2005
7:08 am
Hi Chris Here's my advice. Assemble your papers and type your proof out into a file. Having it condensed all in one place in nice clean type can do wonders for...
16334 chrisdarroch Send Email Mar 31, 2005
10:49 am
Thankyou for your kind post Mark, May I take this opportunity to offer my apologies, to any who have suffered under my posting strategy. I expect that I will...
16335 Dick
richard042 Send Email
Mar 31, 2005
11:06 am
Hello, Take any number and square it and you are guaranteed a number that is "the best" regardless of it's factorization. -Dick ... bar ... attitude. ... ...
16336 Dick
richard042 Send Email
Mar 31, 2005
11:40 am
... Sorry to say I am running short of spare time in the next couple of days, but I sense you are closer. In fact, I am looking forward to checking because if...
16337 Suresh Batta
subasoft Send Email
Mar 31, 2005
12:40 pm
Hi, I would like to find a page on the Internet that lists all the known algebraic prime number generators (non infinite ofcourse). Can somebody point to some...
16338 Adam
a_math_guy Send Email
Mar 31, 2005
2:31 pm
"Increasing their accurcacy" is not something a mathematician is going to be too generous about. You either have a proof of something and it is correct, or,...
16339 jbrennen Send Email Mar 31, 2005
3:07 pm
... Yes, they potentially could claim the proof as their own if they publish it first. That is why if you actually do have a proof, it is imperative that you...
16340 Mark Underwood
marku606 Send Email
Mar 31, 2005
3:37 pm
Yes, different rules. I like Ratwain's idea of using adjacent primes, whether increasing or decreasing. It extends the path and makes it more interesting, yet...
16341 chrisdarroch Send Email Mar 31, 2005
4:57 pm
Your post allays the main themes of my worries. I believe that face to face, it is easier to attribute correctly, trust or not, in a person. Posting in this...
16342 chrisdarroch Send Email Mar 31, 2005
5:12 pm
The rule, where there must be at most four 1's in any 2p period; it must be assumed that for the row header 3,the pattern of 1's and 2's will ensure that an...
16343 chrisdarroch Send Email Mar 31, 2005
5:12 pm
The rule, where there must be at most four 1's in any 2p period; it must be assumed that for the row header 3,the pattern of 1's and 2's will ensure that an...
16344 jbrennen Send Email Mar 31, 2005
5:21 pm
... Let me restate what I think you are trying to say... Assume a finite set of distinct odd primes, and for each prime p_i, an infinite periodic sequence of...
16345 Mark Underwood
marku606 Send Email
Mar 31, 2005
6:06 pm
... Yes, I find some of my discoveries hard to believe as well! In one of my recent ones I found a relation such that the number of primes in an interval f(n)...
16346 Mark Underwood
marku606 Send Email
Mar 31, 2005
6:12 pm
Correction: I had said: It is well known that given any two relatively prime a and b, there is always an r and s, r<a and s<b such that a*r - b*s = 1. ...
16347 chrisdarroch Send Email Mar 31, 2005
8:40 pm
This is interesting. I put my effort on GC aside in the recent past in order to concentrate on something which had a definite prize for a result. It was the...
16348 Décio Luiz Gazzoni...
deciogazzoni Send Email
Mar 31, 2005
9:39 pm
... Hey Darroch, If you're really into integer factorization, I suggest you talk to my buddy James Harris over at the sci.crypt and sci.math newsgroups (if you...
16349 chrisdarroch Send Email Mar 31, 2005
11:19 pm
Nice one....that made me laugh. You see, I seem to notice that if the pair of a product, are within a certain distance apart, then it is a simple matter to...
16350 Décio Luiz Gazzoni...
deciogazzoni Send Email
Mar 31, 2005
11:28 pm
... Yes, it's called Fermat's method. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FermatsFactorizationMethod.html ... Of course I did -- James is working in the state of the...
16351 Jud McCranie
judmccr Send Email
Apr 1, 2005
1:04 am
... And if you're in it for the money, as you said, then you should buy a lottery ticket instead - your chances of winning the lottery are much higher. ... ...
16352 Jose Ramón Brox
ambroxius Send Email
Apr 1, 2005
1:36 am
I think you are using Fermat's Factorization Method. n = a*b n = (d+s)(d-s) = d^2 - s^2 a = d+s b= d-s d= (a+b)/2 s= (a-b)/2 This method is invalid for numbers...
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