Re^3: OT: Finding Factor Closest To Square Root

Roy Johnson,
I am sure once you get all the bugs worked out one of your solutions will be the winner (minus my Inline::C solution). Let me know when you think it is bug free and I will update. As it stands now, it breaks on 13316184461 (45863,290347). It says that 290347 is the answer, but that is larger than the sqrt().

Cheers - L~R

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Re^4: OT: Finding Factor Closest To Square Root by Roy Johnson (Monsignor) on Feb 28, 2005 at 20:12 UTC
I had left in a call to shift that I shouldn't. It's fixed, now. Caution: Contents may have been coded under pressure.	[reply]
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` [download] 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	[reply] [d/l]