On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:07 AM Beartooth <Beartooth@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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/ _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
