You're right, that statement was rather too broad. Thank you for the correction.
No. Integer factorization is not NP-hard (so not NP-complete). (This isn't proven, but it's generally thought to be the case.) So, while doing a polynomial-time integer factorization would be hugely significant (and…
You're right, that statement was rather too broad. Thank you for the correction.
No. Integer factorization is not NP-hard (so not NP-complete). (This isn't proven, but it's generally thought to be the case.) So, while doing a polynomial-time integer factorization would be hugely significant (and…