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- From: djb@silverton.berkeley.edu (D. J. Bernstein)
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- Subject: Re: Oh yeah? Factor this...
- Message-ID: <12851.Jan2522.24.2893@silverton.berkeley.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 22:24:28 GMT
- References: <1993Jan20.232616.5748@zip.eecs.umich.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan20.232616.5748@zip.eecs.umich.edu> gilgalad@quip.eecs.umich.edu (Ralph Seguin) writes:
- > 273924503086030314234102342916746862811943643675809146279473679416086\
- > 9202622699363433211840458243863492954873728399236975848797430631773058\
- > 0753883429460344956410077034761330476016739454649828385541500213920807\
- > Can you factor this number [in your lifetime]?
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- Yes, using the number field sieve and a roughly $10M initial investment.
- This is with some rather conservative estimates of number field sieve
- asymptotics, economic stability, and my lifetime; I imagine I'd turn a
- tidy profit too.
-
- ---Dan
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