1. What was the most difficult part of the reading for you?
Well.... Hm... That's a tricky question. I feel like there was so much information packed into this section that I'd struggle to recall most of it. I got the basics for the base stuff and maybe the Carmichael (?) stuff, but after that, as I was reading, I felt like the section was just rambling off information I wasn't ready to handle. Even during the Carmichael stuff, the whole time I was reading it, I thought "Can you just give me an example of what you are talking about?!?" ...Then the did, and I still didn't feel that much clarification from their example. So, I guess that though I didn't grasp the second test they discussed at all, I most struggled with the Carmichael stuff.
2. What was the most interesting part of the reading for you?
I guess that when we were discussing Quadratic Reciprocity and Jacobi Symbols forever ago (which, truthfully, I'm still struggling to fully understand) I felt like the Jacobi Symbol stuff was so far away and that we'd never reach that section. And, in turn, that was my personal excuse as to why I didn't fully understand it. However, here we are, now reading about the Jacobi Symbols and I am still a little fuzzy about them. I guess that excuse has died down. So, hopefully, if I'm not too busy playing the new Zelda game today, I'll revisit Quadratic Reciprocity and Jacobi Symbols, and hope that helps me out a little bit.
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