Difficult:
I didn't understand the quadratic sieve very well at all. I couldn't even follow the example from step to step. I think I understand a super general why it should work from quadratic residue but overall I'm not sure what it's doing to get the factors. I get the last part of finding the gcd and then finding the other factor from by dividing by the gcd.
Reflective:
It's interesting that we don't have one set way of doing many of these problems. We have different methods that work well for different things. Many of them seem to build upon each other but often they can be quite separate but spawn from the same origin. I guess it must be difficult to combine all of these methods into a super method that we work best.
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