At 5:03 PM -0800 11/23/98, Jim Choate wrote:
I figure I'll drop a couple of more points on this since nobody else seems to have twigged to them....
Your reputation capital has already dropped so many points that I'm not sure you _can_ drop a couple of more points. Please take your bizarre theories about Goldbach's Conjecture to some mathematics journals and see if you can get published. Writing dozens of crankish articles about your theories about prime numbers, and tiling triangles, and such is just plain eccentric. (Eccentric curve cryptography?) And basing big chunks of your argument on why 1 or 2 or whatever should or should not be defined as prime is just plain sophistry. Ditto for your bizarre theories about how electric fields work, about how charges inside conducting spheres don't follow Gauss's Law, and other crankish theories about electricity. Give it a rest. --Tim May "I swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, just the way the President did." ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Licensed Ontologist | black markets, collapse of governments.