[90673] in Cypherpunks
Re: Factor a 2048-bit number
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anonymous)
Sat Nov 22 07:22:14 1997
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 02:56:12 +0100 (MET)
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
From: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
Reply-To: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
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Antonomasia wrote:
>The wording of the original challenge suggested there was a trick to
>this particular factorisation.
That is exactly right. Hint 3 is more like an insight a puzzle solver
would have rather than that of a mathematician. When you have this
insight you will know it.
If you want me to post Hint 3, just ask. You'll have a good laugh if
you get it yourself, though.
Monty Cantsin
Editor in Chief
Smile Magazine
http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html
http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm
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