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To: sourcery
That means calculations, such as working out the factors of prime numbers, which present problems for even the fastest supercomputers

Work out the factors of prime numbers? I can already do that instantaneously.

7 posted on 10/30/2003 10:16:22 PM PST by jodorowsky
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To: jodorowsky
Work out the factors of prime numbers? I can already do that instantaneously.

No fair poking fun at brain-dead journalists. That's far too easy. And you and I both know that what should have been said was 'quickly finding the prime factors of very large numbers.'

8 posted on 10/30/2003 10:18:56 PM PST by sourcery (Moderator bites can be very nasty!)
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