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- From: strnlght@netcom.com (David Sternlight)
- Subject: Re: Oh yeah? Factor this...
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.205045.13877@netcom.com>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 20:50:45 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan21.011510.24294@linus.mitre.org> bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan20.232616.5748@zip.eecs.umich.edu> gilgalad@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
- >:
- >27392450308603031423410234291674686281194364367580914627947367941608692026226993634332118404582438634929548737283992369758487974306317730580753883429460344956410077034761330476016739454649828385541500213920807
- >:
- >:Can you factor this number [in your lifetime]? If so, you may be
- >
- >What is the source for this number? Is it a random integer? Is it
- >an RSA number, constructed as the product of nearly equal primes?
- >If the latter it is out of current computational range.
-
- (Correcting a previous post)
- Couldn't you take the approximate square root of the number, truncate the
- result, and then start searching up and down from there if the number is the
- product of two nearly equal primes?
-
- David
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