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Date: 2008-06-23 11:09 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com
I have this great tool for factoring large primes, just send me £1,000,000 and I'll let you have a copy...

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Date: 2008-06-23 11:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com
Does it successfully reject invalid inputs, or produce an undefined[1] result? :)

[1] I say "undefined", but I think I know what it's going to be :)

(Yes, the phrase "factorising large primes" really bugs me too -- even more so because I actually recognise in myself a tendency to say it, so although wrong, it must have _some_ resonance with what it ought to mean.)

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Date: 2008-06-24 08:41 am (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] ewx.livejournal.com

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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