https://i.postimg.cc/4ycRFNZf/...

The factorization shit I'm always ranting about? I decided for once to explain it visually in this handy dandy little infographic.

We're essentially transforming the product from an unsmooth set of potential factors in its factor tree, to a factorization tree that guarantees first that the set of potential factors are all 2, 3, 5, and a or b of p, and second, that all the factors are *smooth integers* of a or b.

This is basically what Adi Shamir was trying to do with TWINKLE and TWIRL, despite checking a hundred thousand+ potential primes.

I did it in four.