On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 23:15:46 +0100
FRIGN <dev_AT_frign.de> wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Feb 2016 23:03:14 +0100
> Mattias Andrée <maandree_AT_kth.se> wrote:
>
> Hey Mattias,
>
> > I haven't spent too much time on it. But why don't we
> > need factor, it is in coreutils and is useful to have?
>
> why not just write a naive implementation, using no
> external libs. I'm sure you can write a prime factorizer
> in under 30 lines of code.
It would have been more work for me as most of this already
done. A naïve implementatation would be limited to 64 bits
and run in exponential time. Hardly useful.
>
> Cheers
>
> FRIGN
>
Received on Thu Feb 25 2016 - 23:21:24 CET