Peter Murphy writes:
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and see the major number theorist in this department, Dr. Keith Matthews. He is a really nice guy, and is always interested in writing and/or distributing programs for number theory calculations. He even showed me one of his newest programs, and demostrated it by factoring 2^71 -1 for
Is this really that impressive? MapleV and my 386dx-20 just factored it into 212885833 * 48544121 * 228479 in a matter of 23 cpu seconds.
he teaches, and could I post it to the list. Voila! Not only did he have it printed out on paper, but he also mailed me the relevant LATEX files.
way cool. thanks for the legwork..
{Textbooks: Number Theory} ...
N. Koblitz, "A course in number theory and cryptography", QA3.G7NO.114,
Speaking of who .. he's at my university. :) Nice guy; one of the people who offered to help me with the remailer situation last year. Funny thing; last year the computer administrators wouldn't even allow a copy of PGP to reside on their systems -- now it is part of their public account (student-run officially University unsupported software, usable by all).
H. Shapiro, "Introduction to number theory", QA 241.S445 1983,
this isn't the Hawk Shapiro..?
D.E.R. Denning, "Cryptography and Data Security", Addison-Wesley, 1982, QA76.9.A25D461982
sigh. mt Matt Thomlinson University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. phone: (206) 548-9804 Check my home page -- ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/phantom/home.html PGP 2.2 key available via email, or finger phantom@hardy.u.washington.edu