Cliff Wells LogiplexSoftware at earthlink.net
Sat Dec 28 19:04:56 EST 2002

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On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 13:16, William Park wrote:
> Luca Bruderer <luca.bruderer at bluewin.ch> wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I'm wondering which is the best algorithm to do this.
> 
> Brute-force method.  Just keep on dividing by the prime numbers until
> you get to 1. :-)


Of course for the person who once had the sig:

William Park, Open Geometry Consulting, <opengeometry at yahoo.ca>
8 CPU cluster, (Slackware) Linux, Python, LaTeX, Vim, Mutt, Sc.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^

brute force always sounds good ;)


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