Thursday, December 5, 2013

section 16.3

Difficult: I don't think I really understood how to find the factors using elliptic curves very well.

Interesting: I thought the idea of smooth and b-smooth numbers was interesting since I've never really learned about them before by name. I didn't know there was a name for those numbers! I think it's pretty awesome that someone cared about them enough to name them, though I do wonder why they chose those names.

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