1. This section was actually a little difficult to follow as it transitioned into matrices and stuff. I was kinda confused on a few of their examples. Like the one on the top of page 184, where it shoes the relation of 17078^2 which was congruent to 3 primes raised to powers, and then they transferred those powers into the row of a matrix. What I'm confused about is when we know when to stop, if that makes sense... So I understand that we have (6, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0) and the 6 comes from 2^6, the 2 comes from 3^2 and then I guess 0 for the primes 5 and 7, and then 1 for 11^1, and then I don't know why they out down 3 more zeros. Anyway, that was kinda confusing to me.
2. I really liked this section though, it was very interesting! I like the Basic Principle, I understand that, and we've gone over it in class, so that's great! I just hope to understand the rest of this section tomorrow in class, because it's a little fuzzy after just reading it myself, and I'm excited to see how well it helps us!
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