s from the Society for Neuro-oncology Ninth Annual Meeting, Toronto

Submitted to the proceedings of the ninth international conference on domain decomposition methods (Bergen-Norway-1996).

In December 1998, the Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals issued a report and recommendations for Congress and the President. The commission resulted from ongoing controversy over splitting the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit The commissioners clearly suggested that the circuit remain intact but proposed three regionally based adjudicative divisio...

In this paper we exhibit the full prime factorization of the ninth Fermât number Fg = 2512 + 1 . It is the product of three prime factors that have 7, 49, and 99 decimal digits. We found the two largest prime factors by means of the number field sieve, which is a factoring algorithm that depends on arithmetic in an algebraic number field. In the present case, the number field used was Q(v^2). T...