factor a not very big number takes forever

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factor a not very big number takes forever

Closed this issue 4 years ago · 3 comments

using Primes;
factor(-52150815751994411270420247094986245419003171173880)

takes forever to compute. Any idea?

Answer 1 · 2021-02-25T06:14:03.000Z

This appears to be a dup of #49. The good news is that this should be pretty easy to fix. The bad news is that the pull request that would have helped seems to have stalled out in 2017 :(

Answer 2 · 2021-02-25T12:59:30.000Z

This appears to be a dup of #49. The good news is that this should be pretty easy to fix. The bad news is that the pull request that would have helped seems to have stalled out in 2017 :(

Answer 3 · 2021-02-25T12:59:54.000Z

switched to Nemo.. works great