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in thread OT: Finding Factor Closest To Square Root

I had left in a call to shift that I shouldn't. It's fixed, now.

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Re^5: OT: Finding Factor Closest To Square Root
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Feb 28, 2005 at 21:53 UTC
    Roy Johnson,
    It's fixed, now.

    Mostly. It gives the number instead of 1 if the number is prime. That really isn't a big deal.

    $ time ./rjnew.pl real 1m8.446s user 1m1.338s sys 0m0.440s
    So you have a couple of the fastest implementations. The Inline::C is only barely winning though that might be static. The interesting thing is that many solutions are faster than using Math::Pari to get a list of factors and doing a binary search.

    Cheers - L~R