Walt Pawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > At 1:19 PM -0500 7/15/05, John J. Boyer wrote: >> >>Which package contains the factor command? This is useful as well as >>entertaining, since it will tell me when a number is a phime factor. > > I don't know it'll help with "phimes" or not, but the "calc" package, > which is from http://www.isthe.com/chongo/tech/comp/calc/index.html > is great for prime piddling ... and lots of other numerology. Not a fink > port, I think, but it compiles and installs very nicely from what I could > see.
mathomatic (a fink package) can factor: % mathomatic 1-> factor number 31415926 31415926 = 2 * 1901 * 8263 OTOH, the more math packages the better! Feel free to submit a fink package for calc. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
