2 Apr
2012
2 Apr
'12
12:21 p.m.
I wrote:
I wonder how much progress Bill Gates has made on the
mathematical problem
he pointed out in his book, of factoring very large prime numbers.
Dave Wade wrote:
In the UK thats not what they should teach. They are
suppposed to teach
primes have two distinct factors, 1 and the prime. As for 1 these are both
the same number its not prime.
Yes, that was my point. Factoring very large prime numbers is trivial.
Gates obviously meant "factoring products of two very large prime
numbers", but got it wrong.