From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Sat, 22 Nov 1997 11:23:23 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Factor a 2048-bit number
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Antonomasia wrote:
>The wording of the original challenge suggested there was a trick to
>this particular factorisation.

That is exactly right.  Hint 3 is more like an insight a puzzle solver
would have rather than that of a mathematician.  When you have this
insight you will know it.

If you want me to post Hint 3, just ask.  You'll have a good laugh if
you get it yourself, though.

Monty Cantsin
Editor in Chief
Smile Magazine
http://www.neoism.org/squares/smile_index.html
http://www.neoism.org/squares/cantsin_10.htm

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