On Tue, Jan 05, 2021 at 06:06:15PM -0000, Beartooth wrote:
It would be nice to have a factoring applet -- which wouldn't
need to be vast nor intense enough to come anywhere near cryptographic
use, but just as a mildly entertaining time waster.
My guess is that it exists, and is either already in Fedora, or
can be handily installed. Anybody know?
dnf install calc
See the docs and web site
http://isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/
I personally use it as a handy command line too mostly for arithmetic, but
it was used by actual researchers to discover some at-the-time largest
primes.
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Matthew Miller
<mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader