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Questions regarding well-defined instructions for completing a task, and relevant analysis in terms of time/memory/etc.

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Factoring as a decision problem

In fact, given natural numbers $x$ and $N$, deciding whether $x$ is a square modulo $N$ or not is a typical decision problem. If you can solve this problem efficiently, then you can factor $N$ efficie …
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