29 Apr
2007
29 Apr
'07
8:43 p.m.
Michael wrote: << Rich wrote:
A factoring cartoon. --Rich
1) In general, xkcd rocks. He's talking at MIT on 5/14. 2) Someone implemented the factoring clock, of course. http://hacks.atrus.org/factor_clock/
I don't know the factoring algorithm used here, but if you try to count seconds along with the clock, it's clear that harder numbers to factor correspond to, um, longer seconds. --Dan