Theo Buehler wrote: > Last fall there was a thread containing some examples of composite > numbers that were not factored properly by factor(6): > > https://marc.info/?t=144155842300002&r=1&w=2 > > Some suggestions were made and some (incomplete) diffs were posted, but > no action was taken. Below is a diff that uses Newton's method from > ping.c, as suggested by Otto, and which fixes both bugs that were > apparent in the thread:
oh, hurray, a real diff. it can't really make things worse, and it is just a game. go ahead.
