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In the opening paragraphs of Article 329 of the Disquisitiones, Gauss, a master at calculating, writes [pp. 396–397],
The problem of distinguishing prime numbers from composite numbers and of resolving the latter into their prime factors is known to be one of the most important and useful in arithmetic ... the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
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Buell, D.A. (1989). Factoring with Binary Quadratic Forms. In: Binary Quadratic Forms. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4542-1_10
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