OK, this edition is probably "cleaner" than the 1st edition.

My fellow Cypherpunks,

Tim May writes:

>Faster even than the usual algorithm?

>The factors of a prime number are 1 and the number itself.

   Always the gracious one, Tim May takes time out of his busy schedule to
assist me. Well, now, I posted quickly and didn't take time to
make a neat statement. In a recent post I mentioned that the ? mark is a
"save".  I'll go even further than this! An algorithm attempting to
factor a prime would fail. - Thusly, implying primality :-) I believe that I
would be literally correct even without the ?  :-) And, yes, the factors
of a prime are 1 and the number itself. In some circles this is considered
trivial.

Yours Truly,
Gary Jeffers

BEAT STATE!!!


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