Language differences?  

Personally,  I tend to be rather careless,  using the terms “factor” and 
“divisor” for the same thing,  when “divisor” is perhaps to be preferred.  
However,  Pari GP provides a library function “factor” to deliver the prime 
factorisation of its argument,  in a similar fashion to J’s q: .    

So, strictly speaking,  perhaps,  the factors of 358358 are 2 7 11 13 179 and 
its divisors are 1 2 7 11 13 14 22 etc...

You’re both right!

Mike

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> On 3 Nov 2017, at 11:25, Erling Hellenäs <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi all!
> 
> Raul:
> 
> "Hmm... actually, thinking about it, the par approach here is not
> efficient enough for this example. 5 parRuskeyE 32 is too big of a
> result, I think. (358358 has 5 distinct prime factors and, thus, 32
> integer factors.)"
> 
> However there are only 5 integer factors:
> 
>   q: 358358
> 2 7 11 13 179
>   */q:358358
> 358358
> 
> Now you ask me for 44 5 integer factorizations.
> 
> As far as I understand there is only one 5 integer factorization of 358358 
> unless you count 1 and 358358 as factors.
> In any case it can be handled by parRuskeyE.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Erling Hellenäs
> 
> 
> 
>> Den 2017-11-03 kl. 10:58, skrev Raul Miller:
>> I'm not sure where you showed the 44 different 5 integer
>> factorizations of 358358?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
> 
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