Monday, December 5, 2011

6.3 of Stein's book, due December 5

First, I was a little disappointed when we started using an online book. I really don't like reading online, plus I can't take the book with me throughout the day- which is why I bought the other one. So, does B-power smooth basically mean that in the prime factorization there are no repeated primes? That's what it seemed like but I feel like if that was all it meant then they would have explained it that way. I hope that we do an example of algorithm 6.3.2 in class, because their explanation didn't really tell me how to do it. If I can understand this by the end of class today, that'd be SWEET because factorization is something we've previously had no algorithms or extra aids for.

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