PRESS REPORT - IMPORTANT?????

[Dr.Dimitri Vulis KOTM]

"Timothy C. May" <tcmay at got.net> writes:

> At 11:05 AM -0500 3/31/97, Ray Arachelian wrote:
> >Is this for real or a troll???
> >
> >On Mon, 31 Mar 1997, Anonymous wrote:
> >
>
> >> >"Leading researcher Ari Lenstra last night announced major
> >> >progress had been made towards a solution to the factoring
> >> >problem, a result obtained by Sergei Ripov, researcher at
> >> >an obscure university in the former Soviet union, shows
> >> >conclusively that there exists a solution to the problem
> >> >that is of polynomial time complexity, although this solution
> >> >has yet to be found this signals the beginning of the end for
> ...
>
> It sure does resemble my "Russian Factoring Breakthrough" post of several
> years ago (April 1st, 1994, if I remember the year correctly).
>
> I had the same format: a reporter in Moscow, a press release, a secret
> Russian research facility, and a breakthrough in factoring....

Actually, Timmy's was funnier.

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