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		grinnbearit on Sept 7, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Bitcoin Mining in Plain English It's more like, "What are the prime factors of the numeric representation of your name", and then the sweet is awarded to the store of the person with that name. It doesn't buy you anything if you relay someone else's answer.

pbhjpbhj on Sept 8, 2012 [–]

This conflicts with the sibling comment where the analogy is that the teacher is expecting a particular answer.

Think I'll have to find a proper mathematical treatment of the process ... anyone recommend a link, wikipedia didn't do it for me.

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