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Nice article, although brief and short on some details. More something to get you started than to actually explain anything in real detail. It always annoys m
by CarolineW 10y ago
Nice article, although brief and short on some details. More something to get you started than to actually explain anything in real detail.
It always annoys me, though, when articles like this say:
> This code has great performances
> and can factorize prime numbers
> in a very short amount of time.
Sloppy. Unnecessarily sloppy. One is not factoring primes. Yes, I know what is meant, but in subjects like programming, maths, and cryptography, surely one should be more precise.
Oh, and I'm sure every reader knows that in real life you'd never use this method to factor. Way too slow, and there are many ways to speed it up. Nice naive introduction, though.