[QUOTE=davar55;250212]Without using any url links (which I can't url-ways access),
can you briefly explain AICF, MCF, and QMT fusion mechanisms?[/QUOTE]Yes. Or at least I can. But I won't.

:google:

Don't be lazy.

[QUOTE=retina;250217]Yes. Or at least I can. But I won't.

:google:

Don't be lazy.[/QUOTE]

Bart Simpson is lazy. Retina is lazy. Recommending Google is lazy.

Using icons is lazy. Asking intelligent questions is NOT lazy.

...The thread title reminds of little [URL="http://xkcd.com/327/"]Bobby DroptableStudents[/URL].

Is this an attempted forum hack of some type? The alt text leaks into the search window because of the poop image.

[QUOTE=xilman;250322]One more answer: do your own work for a change instead of expecting others to spoon-feed you.
[/QUOTE]

Use of "spoon-feed" is an insult, yes?

So I guess Xilman is lazy too.

[QUOTE=davar55;250336]Use of "spoon-feed" is an insult, yes?

So I guess Xilman is lazy too.[/QUOTE]You may guess whatever you want. Please remember that it is [b]you[/b] who is asking for assistance from me, not the other way round.

I've already answered a number of your questions, against my better judgement and against the advice of others. From now on, you're on your own.

Paul

[QUOTE=xilman;250347]You may guess whatever you want. Please remember that it is you who is asking for assistance from me, not the other way round.
I've already answered a number of your questions, against my better judgment and against the advice of others. From now on, you're on your own.
[/QUOTE]

Once again, you assume I am asking for your assistance.

Can't anyone else answer these questions?

[QUOTE=maxal;108467]I have a nice related problem:

Let n satisfy [tex]2^n\equiv 3 \pmod{n}[/tex].
Prove that 1489 does not divide n.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=alpertron;108562]Let [tex]n = 1489r[/tex]
[tex]2^{1489r} \equiv 3 \,\pmod {1489r}[/tex]

Since 1489 is a prime number we get:
[tex]2^r \equiv 3 \,\pmod {1489}[/tex]

Solving this equation with my [URL="http://www.alpertron.com.ar/DILOG.HTM"]Discrete Logarithm Calculator[/URL] applet we get:
[tex]r = 744j+637[/tex]

Now we will compute r mod 24. Since 744 = 31*24 we find:

[tex]r \equiv 637 \equiv 13\,\pmod {24}[/tex]

But the factors of n must have the form 24n +/- 1, 5 so there is a contradiction.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=davar55;108665]I don't quite get this last step --
why must the factors of n be of that form?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=alpertron;108666]Please read the fourth paragraph of post #8.[/QUOTE]

He says there are lookup tables.
You say read his proof.

When does this end?

[QUOTE=only_human;250377]Being chiefly a British word, the first time I noticed "whinging" was when it was applied to my complaints about gasoline prices within these forums. Now that I know of it, I quite like the word. My chrome browser thinks that it is a misspelling of whining (as did I at first).

Paul Krugman doesn't like the whinging of the bankers at Davos, Switzerland ( where the World Economic Summit is being held from January 26th to January 30th):
[URL="http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/29/mhlamf-in-davos/"]MHLAMF in Davos[/URL]Entry into the summit is not cheap: [URL="http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/24/a-hefty-price-for-entry-to-davos/"]A Hefty Price for Entry to Davos[/URL]

These bankers aren't contritely maintaining an austerity policy at the summit either (from the article just quoted): Paul Krugman was actually generous in his quote from the Financial Times because he omitted this from a banker: “We need to stop authorities around the world throwing sticks and stones at us. We should be past that now,”

Sticks and stones? We should be past that? Sticks and stones are the Tunisian riots and perhaps other rioting in the world right now. We are not at all close to past that. Calling the bankers names may not be constructive toward solutions, but if it really was sticks and stones thrown at the bankers, they would [I]so [/I]know it.[/QUOTE]

Good interesting take, I gotta check out that acronym someday.

But not today.

Riots, rebellion in egypt/etc, could be a harbinger.

[QUOTE=davar55;250371][spoiler]Don't like my math threads spoiled, I mean spoilerized.[/spoiler][/QUOTE]Don't like your incessant demands for others to do your work for you.

[quote=davar55;250371]Don't like my math threads spoiled, I mean spoilerized.[/quote]

But not too tough.