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Identifying prime numbers among small integers is relatively simple, but the task becomes Herculean with large numbers. This complexity has pushed researchers to develop more sophisticated methods ...

Attacking the Printer In fact, this factorization method always works for odd n. But computers can only perform it fast enough if the two prime factors of n are not too far apart.

Qinghua Wu, Guozheng Yan, THE FACTORIZATION METHOD FOR AN OPEN ARC, Journal of Computational Mathematics, Vol. 33, No. 5 (September 2015), pp. 517-532 ...

A digital computer is generally believed to be an efficient universal computing device; that is, it is believed to be able to simulate any physical computing device with an increase in computation ...