[Gllug] What to do in 151 days?

[Stig Brautaset]

* Chris Ball <chris at void.printf.net> spake thus:
> On 25 Sep 2001 22:53:22 +0100, Alex Hudson wrote:
> > Finding factors of large primes would be an obvious mathematical
> > breakthrough.
> 
> No, finding factors of large primes would be a large concentration of
> computational power.  Finding a formula for factors of the nth prime
> with an atomic time complexity would be an obvious mathematical
> breakthrough.

I thought primes only had two factors, "1" and itself? Surely, finding
different factors to these in a prime *would* be an obvious
brakethrough?

Regards,
Stig
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