On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:07 AM Beartooth <Beartooth(a)comcast.net> wrote:
Having begun life as a mathematician (BA 1961), I still
sometimes
play with numbers, whether or not I'm near a computer. I mostly start by
factoring them, so that I know what I've got. But I get lost juggling
more than about two or three three-digit numbers.
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?
If a command line tool suits you, run the "factor" command:
$ factor 2345234
2345234: 2 271 4327
It's part of coreutils, so should be installed on every Fedora system.
--
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/