The quadratic sieve presented in this section was rather interesting. I'm still unclear on how they choose the various values of i and j to produce the matrix in which we look for linear combinations. Also, I'm curious if there's an easy way to find linear combinations among the rows in the matrix we produce.
This section provided some interesting thinking material when it comes to various methods of factoring. I'm surprised at how creative one can get in factoring just using the basic principle we've been using. Are there other "basic principles" we could use to build factoring methods?
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