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Is factoring primes $pq$ eqivalent to discovering $p+q$, thus binding $q$ and the search for $(p+q)$ when $(q/p) < 4$?

Background Some crypto algorithms rely principally on the difficulty of factoring two prime numbers $p$ and $q$. For the purpose of this discussion, assume $p<q$. (The top of this article is ...
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