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To: Allan
Not unreasonable, but not established.

I don't even think it's that reasonable. The RH (and GRH and ERH) are analytical or statistical statements, and lead to conclusions like "there must be a prime in this interval", or "there must be a quadratic non residue in that interval mod N", and so on and so forth.

I'd love to see a really fast factoring algorithm, but I just don't see how proving the RH or any of its variants is likely to lead to it.

173 posted on 04/12/2006 9:51:39 PM PDT by Virginia-American
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To: Virginia-American

This all is very vague
but one can conceive of a theorem
stating that any prime factor must lie in a certain specified interval or intervals.

Intuitively
it seems that a proof of the RH must involve an enormous new insight
into the distribution of prime numbers
and the consequences will be stupendous.


174 posted on 04/12/2006 10:14:43 PM PDT by Allan (*-O)):~{>)
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