Tag: life
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Integer Factorization: Update for 25 September 2023
Advertisements An incidental quirk i noticed in jumpfactor.pl outputs led me to scurry to program a jumpfact2.pl based thereon, but which produced a speed-up in only one out of the fifty test numbers (10 to 12 digits) of my discrete semiprime data suite. What that exciting/disappointing work caused me to pause has resumed: a more…
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My Self-Destructive (but Goodly Intentioned) Skepticism
Advertisements Looking back on my life from the vantage point of being 65, it occurs to me that I have been quite skeptical, for what I still believe to have been good reasons, at the exact times such skepticism would hurt me most. It does not help that at least as frequently, I faced life…
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Frustratingly Frequent Frontier Internet Irritations
Advertisements We live in a location with no cell phone service, in the Northwest Georgia mountains, down a little unpaved road that our Internet Service (and Phone) provider says makes us their most distant customer. Our download speed rarely gets above 2Mbps and is usually a bit below that. And area service outages? Count on…