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| From | Jan Andres <J@nAndr.es> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.politics.org.nsa, sci.math, alt.security.pgp, sci.physics, comp.security.pgp.discuss |
| Subject | Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS |
| Date | 2012-04-19 13:10 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <jmp2rm$dq7$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | (2 earlier) <v4too7hiskkerc968pbj627h38jeip527f@4ax.com> <212286c1-92ba-493a-8a70-893995de8c3e@n19g2000yqk.googlegroups.com> <649f99d3404304f901f3c4713748ea89@msgid.frell.theremailer.net> <66733cb3-e0e4-49cd-bf04-79c1ed3c16fc@i18g2000vbx.googlegroups.com> <16d17e4f-16f9-4820-a26a-0810500cf56b@n22g2000yqb.googlegroups.com> |
Cross-posted to 5 groups.
On 2012-04-19, Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybreaker@aol.com> wrote: > On Apr 19, 5:47 am, Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybrea...@aol.com> wrote: >> On Apr 18, 10:43 pm, Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybrea...@aol.com> wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >> > On Apr 16, 4:28 pm, Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybrea...@aol.com> wrote: >> >> > > On Apr 16, 3:50 pm, quasi <qu...@null.set> wrote: >> > > > Pubkeybreaker wrote: >> > > > >quasi wrote: >> > > > >> Pubkeybreaker wrote: >> >> > > > >> >All this troll did was divide out some (or all) of these >> > > > >> >known PRIME factors to produce a composite cofactor. >> >> > > > >> So barker fooled me again! Barker 3, quasi 0. >> >> > > > >> He has some ideas about digit patterns, possibly valid, >> > > > >> perhaps interesting, but so far he hasn't shown any >> > > > >> actually new factorizations. >> >> > > > >> As far as trolls go, he's a pretty sneaky one. >> >> > > > >This business about "digit patterns" has some very limited >> > > > >legitimacy. If one tries to put together a factoring >> > > > >algorithm based on "reversing the multiplication process" >> > > > >(which is what looking at digit patterns amounts to), one >> > > > >gets a legitimate way of factoring. The difficulty is that >> > > > >it leads to a set of simultaneous diophantine equations >> > > > >(in O(log N)) variables. Solving this problem is known (see >> > > > >Garey & Johnson) to be NP-Complete. >> >> > > > Challenge to barker: >> >> > > > Produce a partial factorization of some composite repunit >> > > > (in a base of your choice) for which the factorization is >> > > > unpublished and for which it would be infeasible to obtain >> > > > that factorization current factoring algorithms. >> >> > > > Short of that, post a simple example (with much smaller >> > > > numbers) to illustrate how the anomalous digit patterns for >> > > > repunits (definitely an interesting phenomenon) can be used >> > > > to algorithmically factor some repunit. >> >> > > I predict: He can't and won't. He is a fraud. >> >> > Having written all that, I take it all back. I've had email >> > from barker, and he provided enough of one of the 107 digit >> > long factors of R281 for me to know he is legit. Judging by >> > where he sent the email from, he could work for the NSA, and >> > this explains a lot. When they factorize something, they >> > don't usually publish it. >> >> > While I can't be certain of this, he also seems to have found >> > a new result about digit patterns in prime factors of repunits. >> > Don't know about the near-prime factors, though. >> >> > Damnit: sorry. Just because I'm posting from Podunk, Mass., it >> > doesn't mean I have no manners or voted Hussein.- Hide quoted text - >> >> > - Show quoted text - >> >> The above post is a forgery. I did not write it.- Hide quoted text - >> >> - Show quoted text - > > Please note. Anyone who has read my posts over the years should > realize > that I do not write in the same style as the forgery. That, plus the forgery is obvious by inspecting the posting's Path: header. The forged posting has exactly the same (somewhat unusual) Path: as barker's postings.
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Re: trying to RECOGNIZE REPUNIT FACTORS BY HAND INSPECTION barker <name.temporarily.withheld@antispamming.harvard.edu> - 2012-04-14 10:40 +0200
Re: trying to RECOGNIZE REPUNIT FACTORS BY HAND INSPECTION quasi <quasi@null.set> - 2012-04-14 13:03 -0500
Re: trying to RECOGNIZE REPUNIT FACTORS BY HAND INSPECTION Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybreaker@aol.com> - 2012-04-14 12:34 -0700
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS barker <name.temporarily.withheld@antispamming.harvard.edu> - 2012-04-15 06:53 +0200
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS quasi <quasi@null.set> - 2012-04-15 03:07 -0500
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS Tonico <Tonicopm@yahoo.com> - 2012-04-15 02:26 -0700
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS quasi <quasi@null.set> - 2012-04-15 06:18 -0500
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS quasi <quasi@null.set> - 2012-04-15 06:14 -0500
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS barker <name.temporarily.withheld@antispamming.harvard.edu> - 2012-04-16 04:43 +0200
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS quasi <quasi@null.set> - 2012-04-15 23:43 -0500
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybreaker@aol.com> - 2012-04-16 05:50 -0700
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybreaker@aol.com> - 2012-04-16 05:54 -0700
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS quasi <quasi@null.set> - 2012-04-16 12:21 -0500
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybreaker@aol.com> - 2012-04-16 09:52 -0700
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS quasi <quasi@null.set> - 2012-04-16 14:50 -0500
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybreaker@aol.com> - 2012-04-16 12:28 -0700
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybreaker@aol.com> - 2012-04-19 04:43 +0200
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS quasi <quasi@null.set> - 2012-04-19 04:08 -0500
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybreaker@aol.com> - 2012-04-19 02:47 -0700
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybreaker@aol.com> - 2012-04-19 04:22 -0700
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS Jan Andres <J@nAndr.es> - 2012-04-19 13:10 +0000
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybreaker@aol.com> - 2012-04-19 09:00 -0700
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS Tonico <Tonicopm@yahoo.com> - 2012-04-19 10:17 -0700
Re: trying to EXAMINE THE DIGITS OF CERTAIN PRIMES FOR PATTERNS Pubkeybreaker <pubkeybreaker@aol.com> - 2012-04-16 06:04 -0700
Re: trying to RECOGNIZE REPUNIT FACTORS BY HAND INSPECTION Frederick Williams <freddywilliams@btinternet.com> - 2012-04-14 22:37 +0100
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