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Finding Prime Factors
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import math | |
def isprime(n): | |
for num in range(2,math.floor(math.sqrt(n))+1): | |
if n%num==0: | |
return(False) | |
return(True) | |
def findfactors(n): | |
primes=[] | |
b=0 | |
for num in range(2,math.floor(n/2)+1): | |
if isprime(n): | |
primes.append(n) | |
break | |
c=n | |
if(n%num==0 and isprime(num)):#Numbers must be prime and should divide n | |
"""B=n and A=num and C=B/A""" | |
c=n/num#Refer to the image in Blog | |
primes.append(num) | |
while(c%num==0):#Continue using num as long as it divides | |
primes.append(num) | |
b=c | |
c=b/num | |
n=c#Refer to the image in blog | |
return(primes) | |
print (findfactors(600851475143)) |
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