1. What was the most difficult part of the reading for you?
Well, again, there were many things that were difficult. And, admittedly, I'm pretty tired, so I may have missed something. But, specifically I have a question about one thing. I felt like I understood "B-Power Smooth" from the first part of this section... But where I got confused was trying to tell if numbers were B-Power Smooth later on. I mean, from what I understand of the definition of B-Power smooth, it seems like everything is B-Power Smooth to some B... So why is it that in the later parts of this section they'd say that a number "Isn't B-Power Smooth"? Again, I probably just read over what they're saying there, but that's something that confused me.
2. What was the most interesting part of the reading for you?
I know this is going to sound a little lame (I can't help it... I didn't fully understand the reading... so sometimes I have to make stuff up to be interesting) and though I really don't understand this part, I think it's interesting that they can use these elliptic curves to factor big numbers. Seriously, after class I was feeling pretty good and exited about this elliptic curve business, so I'm excited to see what light you'll shed on that subject in class.
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