[45679] in Cypherpunks
Re: What ever happened to... Cray Comp/NSA co-development
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Light Ray)
Wed Dec 20 15:43:03 1995
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 11:44:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Light Ray <fricke@roboben.engr.ucdavis.edu>
To: jirib@cs.monash.edu.au
Cc: "Timothy C. May" <tcmay@got.net>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <199512200022.LAA28002@sweeney.cs.monash.edu.au>
On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Jiri Baum wrote:
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> Hello,
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> tcmay wrote:
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> > Prime Factoring? Primes are easy to factor, of course. (Hint: Every prime
> > has two factors.)
> ...
>
> Can someone enlighten me as to what the two factors are?
>
The two factors of a prime number are itself and one. However, prime
factoring usually refers to (?) factoring a number out into it's
component prime numbers.
Tobin Fricke
