1. What was the most difficult part of the reading for you?
Well, it must be time to start a new chapter. This reading wasn't too bad. In fact, and don't tell anybody, it was almost kind of enjoyable. However, I did get a little lost in the Proof of theorem 5.2.1. I mostly think that's just because I'm struggling with the floor function of that proof. I think I just need it verbalized to me. Then, I don't really remember what a kernel is (I remember learning about it, and I think it has something to do with mapping things to zero), so I didn't quite follow the "Square-free kernel of m" stuff.
2. What was the most interesting part of the reading for you?
Well, like I said, I found this reading kind of enjoyable. I think that's just because I had already learned about this technique (the Sieve stuff) in my "History of Math" class a few years ago. So, sometimes when I've tone this homework and I wasn't near a computer to google prime numbers, I'd use this technique to figure out if a number is prime or not. So... That's what I found interesting about it.
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