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Message: [QUOTE="Joshua Cranmer, post: 3619063"] If you're talking about your result with the rings that you discussed with the notable professor, from what you have told us of your actions with said professor, I get the inclination that he didn't have the heart to tell you that the key points of your work were factually incorrect. I, as well as numerous others, have looked at the algorithm and found it wanting. The basic innovation seems... pointless, insufficient, but I'm willing to accept that it might work. Yet it doesn't. Both algorithms, and your extensions thereof, have been refuted by counterexamples. Patricia gave you a program to test stuff with, and I extended it to be easier to test (and am letting you use it). Extrapolating from your factoring work to elsewhere, you seem to generate an algorithm, other people show you it doesn't work, you refine it a little, it still doesn't work, and then people give up when it becomes clear that you are not going to put any work into attacking it. At that point you declare it to be correct and are then surprised to discover that people don't accept this fact. Read the story of the little boy who cried wolf again, it's very similar. To put it in perspective, it's like someone having a proof that 2 + 2 is five, and then complaining when no one accepts it (equivalently, I could cite you two separate "proofs" that 1 = 2). Since when did class become involved? You can't be talking about classes in terms of socioeconomic status. I'm assuming you referring to academic status as a form of class, but, then again, I doubt anyone here or in sci.math (or other newsgroups) would have the power to block publication of something. And please, don't just spit back your retort about SWJPAM, you have absolutely no support of that claim. And your point is? If you're trying to paint the euro has having been created primarily as a counterpart to the USD, GBP, and yen (forgot that one, didn't you), you have no insight into European history. The euro was logical as the Europe harmonized economic systems, dating back mostly to almost immediately post-WWII. May I recommend a course in recent European history? You should really talk to Dr. Mehran Basti on sci.math. He knows solutions but doesn't seem to understand international affairs, and you seem to be an international affairs major-cum-mathematician in search of a solution. <sarcasm> I didn't know a mathematics degree was such good preparation for international affairs (or domestic, for that matter)! </sarcasm> I could rebut for hours on end, but that just gets way too off topic. Cut your philosophy and stick to the matters at hand, i.e., your algorithms. Unless you're trying to make everyone's kill-list. [/QUOTE]

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