BIG thankyou for info on Number Theory
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WOW! I realy thought no one would answer my cry for help. I just pray that my english Libraries will stock said books but even if they don't I will hunt them down. So a huge thankyou to Tim Deveaux, Chris Maunder, Ivan Wooton, Stuart van Weele and Jonathan Gilligan for taking the time to help (and correct some terminological mistakes!) P.S. I would be grateful for any more "Number Theory For 14 Year Olds" books and web sites etc. P.P.S. I recently stumbled across a site covering quantam computation - www.qubit.org - very exciting prospect. Would this be the only practical way of tackling rsa based ciphers? Take a look at it, it has documents and explanations on the subject for those of us with no more than a secondary school knoledge of physics up to quantum mechanic phD level. P.P.P.S. Yes LIAM O'HAGAN you do have too much time on your hands, if you are getting kicks from posting alcohol recipes on an underage's discussion thread - which is about number theory!
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WOW! I realy thought no one would answer my cry for help. I just pray that my english Libraries will stock said books but even if they don't I will hunt them down. So a huge thankyou to Tim Deveaux, Chris Maunder, Ivan Wooton, Stuart van Weele and Jonathan Gilligan for taking the time to help (and correct some terminological mistakes!) P.S. I would be grateful for any more "Number Theory For 14 Year Olds" books and web sites etc. P.P.S. I recently stumbled across a site covering quantam computation - www.qubit.org - very exciting prospect. Would this be the only practical way of tackling rsa based ciphers? Take a look at it, it has documents and explanations on the subject for those of us with no more than a secondary school knoledge of physics up to quantum mechanic phD level. P.P.P.S. Yes LIAM O'HAGAN you do have too much time on your hands, if you are getting kicks from posting alcohol recipes on an underage's discussion thread - which is about number theory!
Hey I didn't post a recipe for making alcohol, I posted a recipe that USES alcohol, in response to a post about alcohol, and with a subject indicating the post was about alcohol. I would have thought that would be enough to indicate to any under age people that there just might be some alcohol related material to follow... Anyway, you still have to be 18 to buy the scotch... If you are responsible for your own actions, i'd suggest you make the baileys but leave out the alcohol. It tastes pretty much the same... Now if I'd made a post linking to some porn that would be a different matter... ;P Liam O'Hagan Senior (18+) Test Engineer GLI Australia www.gli.com.au
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WOW! I realy thought no one would answer my cry for help. I just pray that my english Libraries will stock said books but even if they don't I will hunt them down. So a huge thankyou to Tim Deveaux, Chris Maunder, Ivan Wooton, Stuart van Weele and Jonathan Gilligan for taking the time to help (and correct some terminological mistakes!) P.S. I would be grateful for any more "Number Theory For 14 Year Olds" books and web sites etc. P.P.S. I recently stumbled across a site covering quantam computation - www.qubit.org - very exciting prospect. Would this be the only practical way of tackling rsa based ciphers? Take a look at it, it has documents and explanations on the subject for those of us with no more than a secondary school knoledge of physics up to quantum mechanic phD level. P.P.P.S. Yes LIAM O'HAGAN you do have too much time on your hands, if you are getting kicks from posting alcohol recipes on an underage's discussion thread - which is about number theory!
Your post got me to dig out some old textbooks... A good introductory text that covers lots of topics in discrete math is "Discrete Mathematics and its Applications" by Kenneth H. Rosen. This book assumes no prior knowedge and has plenty of examples. I would suggest getting this book (or one like it) and working through it from cover to cover. An intermediate text is "Concrete Mathematics - A Foundation For Computer Science" by Graham, Knuth and Patashnik. This book assumes a strong math background. Its well written and coherent, but assumes that the reader has enough background to fill in missing steps. Stuart van Weele