Wednesday, October 17, 2012

6.4.1 Introduction, due on October 19

The Interesting

I really liked the Fermat Factorization method. It made a lot of sense to me and I would like to try one out. I hope there's one of these on the homework.

The Challenging

What is a "Bound"? 
It was hard for me to understand how the p - 1 Factoring Algorithm worked (and why it worked). And if we have B!, wouldn't that be a huge number? So then why would p - 1 divide B!?

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