1. The quadratic sieve method seemed pretty interesting. We had already covered the methods from 6.4.2, so I follow those pretty well, but I don't see all the logic behind the quadratic sieve as well as I would like to. I think part of it is that I need to review some of the more basic operations of modular arithmetic and how they can relate to such methods. The matrix this method finds is also interesting, but I guess it doesn't yet make full sense.
2. I look forward to using the quadratic sieve method (once I understand it a bit better). It seems like it'll be pretty fun to use and I like how it uses the matrix to let us "look up" more information regarding our number of interest.
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