Because of the way congruences work, it's possible to do something
interesting with quadratic residues, where I've simplified from the
heavy machinery of the full idea, to make things understandable, and
now it looks like I'm grabbing certain equations from a hat, but at
least it should be easily understood.
Imagine you have k^2 = q mod p, where p is an odd prime.
And now take the equations:
f_1 = k mod p and f_2 = 2k mod p
And let T = f_1*f_2, so T = 2k^2 mod p, and I can see k^2 in there, so
k^2 = 2^{-1}*T mod p, which means that
q = 2^{-1}*T mod p, and T = 2q mod p. Easy.
Now
z^2 - y^2 = T, then (z-y)(z+y) = T, so I have a factorization, and in
fact I have simply enough:
z = (f_1 + f_2)/2, so I can substitute with f_1 and f_2 above, and get
f_1 + f_2 = 3k mod p, so
z = 3k/2 mod p
and I have the implication that the factorization of T is connected
with the value of k, and I have finally:
k = 3^{-1}(f_1 + f_2) mod p, and T = 2q mod p
when k^2 = q mod p.
So this simple approach has connected finding k, when k^2 = q mod p,
with factoring T, where T = 2q mod p.
I'm guessing that the probability of it working is roughly 1/k.
But is this idea new? And what might be serious problems with it?
Can it work well?
James Harris
Very often, it turns out that your result is NOT new. You usually ignore
this though, and uselessly puzzle on for ages wondering why no-one
else has found what you have.
M
Which is a typical, and well-known, symptom of the Narcissistic
Personality Disorder.
One should always keep that in mind while corresponding with JSH.
--C. Ramsey
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Enrico
Give it a rest, accusing me of NPD is something I started years ago.
Thought it might be simpler to toss out that diagnosis than deal with
people using schizophrenia all the time. So I made a post considering
the question of whether or not I had NPD.
As for the math, the deflection would indicate that no, this approach
is not commonly known.
> One should always keep that in mind while corresponding with JSH.
>
> --C. Ramsey
NPD doesn't have the bite of schizophrenia as a negative insult, so in
a way the deflection was a success.
(Yes, people call other people crazy on newsgroups in order to insult
them. That part is easy.)
But for some reason people seem to be more comfortable accusing mental
illness when it's NPD versus schizophrenia, so the accusation is more
common.
So I didn't solve the problem. I merely reduced the bite of the
assertion of mental illness, while dealing with greater frequency of
the insult.
NPD isn't as nasty as schizophrenia. But it is intriguing that the
schizophrenia diagnosis went away completely when I put out the NPD as
a possible instead. People shied away from the harsher negative of
using schizophrenia. Possibly some sense of conscience?
Posters opted for the lesser illness, which is of some interest. Why
the complete replacement?
James Harris
Feed the poor and hungry, not the trolls.
Tom
And none of that seems to address the question of, is this approach
new?
To me it's a simple issue but I guess I can see where for others it's
a competitive question.
But that's where "pure math" as a concept runs into the reality of
human competition.
It is of interest that math people have ignored the simple possibility
that in competitive human interactions with a "pure math" result that
people might simply consider what benefit a discoverer might have from
recognition, and refuse to give it!
Practical mathematics makes that harder.
So "pure math" has built-in a need for social approval. Which selects
for people who treasure group acceptance above all else, including,
ultimately, above mathematical truth itself.
Fascinating. Then social scientists should expect to find a typical
type among modern mathematicians--selected by a particular way of
doing business.
James Harris
>Feed the poor and hungry, not the trolls.
>
>Tom
See http://freerice.com/index.php
rossum
Very often, your methods are so poorly written up that it takes ages
and/or multiple iterations to actually understand them well enough
to make a decision.
Most of the time, actually doing this is a waste of time.
M
When did you routinely start accusing people of lying?
M
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/narcissisticabuse/message/4948
The Narcissist as Know-it-all
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/narcissisticabuse/message/4945
Grandiosity, Fantasies, and Narcissism
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/narcissisticabuse/message/4923
> Finding a result is one thing
Which you have never experienced. You will, when you realize what
a complete moron you are.
Ok, I'm curious. What exactly is the point of you posting these
links? And let's say I accept your diagnosis and decide I have
narcissistic personality disorder, what then? What behaviors would I
show to prove to you that I've accepted your diagnosis and have made a
real change in my life?
Can you list some example of what I might then do or NOT do which
would satisfy you?
James Harris
1) Check your work. Do not fuel the perception that you think all your
work is somehow automatically superior. Make a serious effort of
checking your detractors' reports of errors. Finding errors in
their work is part of the process. Do this /in lieu of/
accusations of lying. Adopt a far more conciliatory tone when
making announcements.
2) Cease abruptly your habit of making grandiose claims of congressional
hearings, internet collapse and other apocalyptic musings. If these
things happen, they happen; there is no use talking about it.
3) If you have a hard time understanding your own work, then
consider how hard other folks might find it. Use this to
dramatically improve your writing. Your anger at folks'
"deliberate" misunderstanding is better directed at this improvement.
Hope this helps.
M
Stop advertising.
As you already note, your maths already has coverage. The
self-promotion helps fuel the NPD idea.
Maths is either correct or its not. No amount of advertising will
change that.
M
> Hope this helps.
It won't. The guy is a complete moron. He's learned nothing, even
after well over a decade of posting junk, and being repeatedly told that
it is junk. He's good fun though - like using a punching bag to release
stress.
You would see a mental health professional and honestly describe
your situation. Be sure to mention collapsing the world economy,
space aliens, and information from the future.
> Can you list some example of what I might then do or NOT do which
> would satisfy you?
You might stop referring to yourself using terms like "a person who
the world will later see as one of its major discoverers."
You might stop claiming that the people you don't like will be
forced to testify before Senate committees.
You might stop contacting the government whenever you think you
found something awesome.
You might stop claiming things like "I know without a doubt that
an entire planet is wrong about my ideas."
You might stop making weak excuses for why you don't try to factor
a large number.
You might stop telling people you don't like things like "you're
pig-headed, arrogant, and also kind of dumb, unfortunately, despite
your pretensions to the contrary."
You might stop exhibiting such paranoid behavior that you write,
"for a while I walked around waiting to be killed on the street. I'd
get home and just be glad to still be alive. I'd glance at windows
wondering where a sniper would setup."
But he is!! Look! Twitter reveals all!
# examples: 7+13=20, 13=7 mod 6, 13�2 = 7�2 = 1 mod 6; 13+3=16, 13�2 = 3�2 = 9 mod 10. cool little result.
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# given p_1+p_2= C, must exist h_N such that: p_1 = p_c mod h_N and p_1�2 = p_2�2 mod h_N
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# noting time and date of discovery as 8:38 am pst, 11/24/09: possible proof of goldbach's conjecture.
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# noting reversal of my past position that goldbach's conjecture is false. method appears to allow calculating a p_1 and p_2 given C.
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# oh, guess i may have a proof of goldbach's conjecture. but i'm not giving it! i'm holding it. easy proof too, if i didn't make a mistake.
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# whew! false alarm. no proof.
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# will destroy notes? maybe
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# yuck, maybe i've proven goldbach's conjecture. and i thought it was false! hopefully i'm looking now at a mirage.
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# closing in on goldbach's conjecture?
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M
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