Historical gloss: Lehman surprisingly transformed Fermat's O(n) method
into an O(cube_root(n)) method. I believe that was the first deterministic
factoring method known beating trial division's O(sqrt(n)) time. Alas for
Lehman, Pollard very soon after published his rho method, which runs in
prob
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While there is no restriction on passing dicts to getitem. Doing so tends
to be a bit ugly. I have two main use cases in mind for this syntax.
The first and perhaps the most obvious, is doing relational queries.
```
where_x_1 = db[x=1]
```
is more beautiful than
```
where_x_1 = db[dict(x=1)]
wh
On Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 3:59 PM Caleb Donovick
wrote:
> While there is no restriction on passing dicts to getitem. Doing so tends
> to be a bit ugly. I have two main use cases in mind for this syntax.
>
> The first and perhaps the most obvious, is doing relational queries.
> ```
> where_x_1 = d
