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Re: What ever happened to... Cray Comp/NSA co-development





On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Jiri Baum wrote:

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> Hello,
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> tcmay wrote:
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> > Prime Factoring? Primes are easy to factor, of course. (Hint: Every prime
> > has two factors.)

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> Can someone enlighten me as to what the two factors are?
> 

The two factors of a prime number are itself and one.  However, prime 
factoring usually refers to (?) factoring a number out into it's 
component prime numbers.

Tobin Fricke