“The first program was written by the late Tom Kilburn to work out the highest factor of a prime number”
I'm not entirely convinced that's true, you know...
Too many zeroes in the price for error checking l-)
(...actually I'd quite happily spend a few weeks bashing in primality testing algorithms if there was a certain million in it. But there isn't l-)
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Too many zeroes in the price for error checking l-)
(...actually I'd quite happily spend a few weeks bashing in primality testing algorithms if there was a certain million in it. But there isn't l-)