Re: A factoring algorithm
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Re: A factoring algorithm

From: Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Mon Jan 09 2006 - 19:41:35 CET

"Pubkeybreaker" <Robert_silverman@raytheon.com> writes:
> The world does not need another O(N^1/4) algorithm.

It also doesn't need knee-jerk gainsayers.

If you'd like to get some stuff of your chest, did the world
need Dixon's algorithm? Or Lehman's? Anyone more recent that
you'd like to condescendingly trash at the same time, while
you're at it?

Phil

-- 
What is it: is man only a blunder of God, or God only a blunder of man?
-- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900), The Twilight of the Gods
Received on Tue Jan 17 16:49:15 2006