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Aug 21, 2020 at 20:12 history edited Joe Silverman CC BY-SA 4.0
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Aug 21, 2020 at 18:18 vote accept Glycerius
Aug 21, 2020 at 0:27 comment added Joe Silverman @GerryMyerson Sure, I didn't think I needed to say that explicitly, but you're right, the other way to make a breakthrough is to find an algortihm that's more efficient, as happened with factorization speedup by replacing the quadratic sieve with the number field sieve.
Aug 21, 2020 at 0:24 comment added Gerry Myerson A much faster computer, or a much better algorithm.
Aug 20, 2020 at 17:38 history answered Joe Silverman CC BY-SA 4.0