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[bug-obsolete-packages] info documentation of factor


From: Andreas Eder
Subject: [bug-obsolete-packages] info documentation of factor
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:40:03 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Hi,
I want to point your attention to an error in the info
documentation of 'factor'.  There ist says:
"Factoring large prime numbers is, in general, hard. " That is ,
of course, nonsense, even though Bill Gates once made the same
error. Factoring large prime numbers is very easy, because they
have just the trivial factors 1 and the number itself.
The sentence should probably read: "Factoring large numbers is, in
general, hard. " 
That is only too true.

Keep up the good work,

Yours,

Andreas Eder

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