42 is found to be the sum of three cubes

Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by scrungus on Friday September 06, 2019 @10:46AM (#20896099)

If you can break up a reasonably-sized table (perhaps 120 or so) of numbers into their respective sums of cubes, breaking many types of encryption is arbitrary.

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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by sp332 on Friday September 06, 2019 @10:55AM (#20896192)

Guessing you meant "trivial". Do you have some info about how this helps break encryption?

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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by saalweachter on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:02AM (#20896254)

The math is complicated, but the TL;DR is that you should already be selling your Bitcoins. Dogecoin should last another six months, seven at the outside.

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Re:42 is found to be the sum of three cubes by scrungus on Friday September 06, 2019 @11:01AM (#20896247)

i would show you the proof but it's arbitrary because it only works against the "sum of cubes" encryption system, which only i use.

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