Alpertron (http://www.alpertron.com.ar/ECM.HTM)

Max A. maxale at gmail.com
Wed Oct 25 08:58:04 CEST 2006


On 10/24/06, David Wasserman <dwasserm at earthlink.com> wrote:
> If I enter a number, and let the applet run until it says "100%"
> under ">= 35", does that calculation prove that all remaining factors
> are greater than 10^34?

No, ECM failure does not prove anything. But it gives some heuristic
probability on the size of factors. See
http://www.loria.fr/~zimmerma/records/ecm/params.html for details.

Max






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