Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!micro-heart-of-gold.mit.edu!newsswitch.lcs.mit.edu!nntp.TheWorld.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: moroney@world.std.spaamtrap.com (Michael Moroney) Newsgroups: sci.math,sci.physics Subject: Re: Archimedes "Village Idiot" Plutonium flunked the Math Test of a lifetime-generation test Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 03:09:16 +0000 (UTC) Organization: The World : www.TheWorld.com : Since 1989 Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <9d8a22e3-83bf-4997-ac1e-d8dfea34b03b@googlegroups.com> <53797082-88fc-4881-b9f6-23f5a67624ef@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: shell01.theworld.com X-Trace: pcls7.std.com 1538881756 22236 192.74.137.71 (7 Oct 2018 03:09:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@TheWorld.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 03:09:16 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: nn/6.6.5 Xref: csiph.com sci.math:425101 sci.physics:706470 Math Failure Archimedes Plutonium fails: >Oct 5 (20 hours ago) > Michael Moroney Archie has stumbled across a variation of trial division >to find primes. Instead of trying every number n from 2 to P/2 and seeing >if n divides P evenly, he is trying every number n from 2 to P/2 and seeing >if (P-n)/n divides evenly. However, >12:28 AM (12 hours ago) >Michael Moroney >1:29 AM (11 hours ago) It's strange how Archie somehow loves my replies to his posts. It is obvious that he must love it, since it would be really dumb and stoopid for someone to provoke someone else if he did NOT want a response. And we all know Archie is a super genius and not dumb and stoopid, right? Wait, what was that???