On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 06:23:49PM +0200, Michal Bozon wrote:

> .. i was wondering before, why *bin/factor is in games, now i get it.
> Very nice observation!
> 
> Another factor game fake primes:
> 
> 18446744073709551503 == 2^64 - 113 == 119026343 * 154980348121
> 18446744073709551499 == 2^64 - 117 == 363269 * 50779846542671
> 18446744073709551491 == 2^64 - 125 == 315781601 * 58416145891
> 18446744073709551461 == 2^64 - 155 == 76511 * 241099241595451
> ...
> i like this one:
> 
> 18446744073709551043 == 2^64 - 573 == 83401 * 95279 * 2321406917
> 
> 
> m.
> 
> 
> > ... is the greatest composite OpenBSD prime.
> ...
> > $ /usr/games/factor $n
> ...

The game is to fix the bugs

        -Otto

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