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From: avnish@ka.excelan.com (Avnish Aggarwal)
Newsgroups: comp.theory
Subject: factoring a large prime
Keywords: factor prime
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Date: 9 Jul 90 23:43:31 GMT
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I read a report recently about how it is that a large (152 digit)
number had been factored using the combined resources of
something like 1000 computers.

I would like to know more about this "parallel algorithm"
that permits all these computers to simultaneously work on the
same problem and is then able to merge the results.

(Factoring algoirthms I am aware of all work is a serial fasion.)
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