On one hand I hear that quantum computers will crack factorisation and discrete logarithms, on the other that the max number factorised is 15 and that 21 might not even be feasible.
I saw some articles saying that Intel saw the market very well, they just could not deliver and rather than admit that, they claimed the CEO decided wrong.
We, humankind managed to get a good optimisation for this problem by using spaces between words.
When trying these algorithms for searching a word in a string of text, I was surprised how little they could improve vs just skipping to the next word.
Given that the GitHub repo is almost three years old, I expect Martin Fowler to already have Dada Patterns, Refactoring in Dada, Dada Distilled, Dada DSL and Dada Best Practices ready to publish.
Tried it and it feels slow. I opened a Rust project and after a long wait to index crates, I opened a file and deleted a commented line. It took a few seconds to display the annotations again.
That explanation irks me a lot because it implies Eratosthenes knew the Sun was so far away, the rays reaching the earth are practically parallel. And while it might sound a like a detail, the whole calculation depends on it.
If you presume the Earth is flat and the Sun not that far away, Eratosthenes was calculating the distance to the Sun.
What is going on?