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Bateman

lmao, the best mathmaticians cannot solve it, yet a spotty teenager can. Only on TSR

What about the crazy swiss guy who worked in a patent office and couldnt even get a job as a teacher, he came up with special relativity :yep:

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john.miguel

JumpingJonny

What about the crazy swiss guy who worked in a patent office and couldnt even get a job as a teacher, he came up with special relativity :yep:

QFT

Was he not German? Living in Switzerland?

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member169510

john.miguel

QFT

Was he not German? Living in Switzerland?

Yeah, I guess I typed that pretty wrong, I made it sound like he was swiss, he is actually German as you stated. Oops :rolleyes:

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ttx

john.miguel

That is no prime number.

I didn't say it was a prime, it's a semiprime with two prime factors. The OP claims to be able to factor such numbers, so I gave it as a simple test.

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Zhen Lin

JumpingJonny

Yeah, I guess I typed that pretty wrong, I made it sound like he was swiss, he is actually German as you stated. Oops :rolleyes:

Well, if I recall correctly, by that time he had renounced his German citizenship.

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member169510

Zhen Lin

Well, if I recall correctly, by that time he had renounced his German citizenship.

Im not sure, at which point did he come to Cambridge?

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TheMeister

ttx

I didn't say it was a prime, it's a semiprime with two prime factors. The OP claims to be able to factor such numbers, so I gave it as a simple test.

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Tallon

I don't think it matters

Reply 28

SunderX

Bateman

lmao, the best mathmaticians cannot solve it, yet a spotty teenager can. Only on TSR

Hey, you never know. I was watching Discovery channel last night, and I think I figured out a cure for cancer. I want to spread the news out to everyone for the benefit of mankind:

Spoiler

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matty600

Bateman

lmao, the best mathmaticians cannot solve it, yet a spotty teenager can. Only on TSR

It's not likely but its still possible and the cod, I'm sure, will be solved at some point, so why not?

I agree that its very unlikely but you never know...

Prove it, OP

matty600

I agree that its very unlikely but you never know...

I did my first meaningful number theory proof when I was 17 so it's not impossible :p:

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majikthise

JumpingJonny

What about the crazy swiss guy who worked in a patent office and couldnt even get a job as a teacher, he came up with special relativity :yep:

Except he had already completed a 4 year maths and physics course after graduating high school, so it's not really the same thing, is it?

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ghostwalker

john.miguel

That is no prime number.

The nearest prime number to the above would be:

13506641086599522334960321627880596993888147560566702752448514385152651060485953383394028715057190944179820728216447155137368669

Don't think so. I think you've only got the first 130 odd digits of his 300+ digit number.

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member169510

majikthise

Except he had already completed a 4 year maths and physics course after graduating high school, so it's not really the same thing, is it?

Clearly not, this guy has just been watching too much TV :yep:

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Gottfried Leibniz

Oh, and I've just invented calculus.

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rnshan

john.miguel

That is no prime number.

The nearest prime number to the above would be:

13506641086599522334960321627880596993888147560566702752448514385152651060485953383394028715057190944179820728216447155137368669

SORRY YOUR CODE WAS OFF BY -2387 :yep:

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Dirac Delta Function

ttx

I did my first meaningful number theory proof when I was 17 so it's not impossible :p:

FlT? Wilson's?

Go on share.

Reply 38

benwellsday

a security risk?

Kind of, but I'd imagine the amount of time it takes for someone to take such a code, and create a program that exploits it to find the prime factors of a large number, and run it, is slightly longer than it'd take for the banks and the governement to turn off their internet until better security is in place.

worth alot of money?

Probably, but the Riemann hypothesis is probably more important as the wiki article rants on about all this other stuff that is does that I don't understand. No idea though. You could make more money by exploiting the code and robbing every online bank worldwide if you had a decent plan...

can I ask for like a degree/doctorate

No, unless you rediscovered a lot of number theory to make your code, then you can be a number theorist perhaps, although along the way I imagine you'd have to rediscover a lot of mathematics for the number theory to make sense...

code be named after me

Yes, you can call it Troll's Theorem.
(reminds me too much of Rolle's Theorem, which reminds me I should be revising rather than posting sarcastic comments on TSR...)