Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Section 7.2, October 28

So this is another one of those sections that makes up for all the sections that I think are not really hard. I can't really follow what is happening when we get to the index calculus step. I am not really sure about what is going on to find the different exponents.

The most interesting thing for me was that this works out for p = 1 mod 4. I think this is interesting because before we talked about finding squares in the environment where p = 3 mod 4. It is just cute to me that this would happen and be so opposite.

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