Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number

From	Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number
Date	2015-04-11 09:59 -0700
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Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> writes:
> This is slightly faster:...
> def fac(n):
>     for c in range(n):
>         if c*c > n: ...

That's interesting and says something bad about generators in Python 3.
It's doing 3 times as many trial divisions as the version I posted, and
it's still faster?

xrange in Python 2 doesn't work with bignums, but using 
itertools.count(3,2) I get about 5.5 seconds and with itertools.count(3)
I get 11 seconds.

I wrote the same algorithm in Haskell and it's about 0.85 seconds,
probably due to native compilation and faster bignums.  A naive
implementation of Pollard's rho algorithm in Haskell is basically
instantaneous on that number.  I might try coding Pollard's method or
Brent's improvement in Python.

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find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number ravas <ravas@outlook.com> - 2015-04-10 16:37 -0700
  Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2015-04-10 21:16 -0400
  Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-10 21:06 -0400
    Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-11 12:04 +1000
      Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Stephen Tucker <stephen_tucker@sil.org> - 2015-04-11 06:11 +0100
      Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-10 23:08 -0700
        Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-04-11 10:14 +0300
          Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-11 09:59 -0700
            Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-04-11 20:31 +0300
              Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-11 10:52 -0700
                Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-12 07:10 +1000
                Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-04-11 19:58 -0400
                Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-12 10:16 +1000
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            Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-04-12 10:17 +0300
              Primes [was Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number] Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-12 20:48 +1000
              Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-12 18:56 -0700
                Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2015-04-12 22:35 -0400
                Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-12 20:30 -0700
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                Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-12 22:57 -0700
                Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-13 17:21 +1000
                Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-13 19:42 -0700
                Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-04-14 12:47 +1000
                Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-13 19:54 -0700
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                Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-15 10:37 -0700
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        Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-11 17:35 +1000
          Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number jonas.thornvall@gmail.com - 2015-04-11 01:47 -0700
          Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-11 09:31 -0700
            Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-12 12:22 +1000
              Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-11 21:24 -0700
                Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-12 14:29 +1000
          Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-04-11 12:41 -0400
            Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-11 10:02 -0700
        Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2015-04-11 12:37 -0400
      Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Brian Gladman <blindanagram@nowhere.net> - 2015-04-12 10:34 +0100
        Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-04-13 00:29 +1000
          Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-12 10:20 -0700
            Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-12 10:23 -0700
            Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Brian Gladman <blindanagram@nowhere.net> - 2015-04-12 20:15 +0100
              Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-12 12:45 -0700
          Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Brian Gladman <blindanagram@nowhere.net> - 2015-04-12 20:07 +0100
  Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2015-04-10 18:28 -0700
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  Re: find all multiplicands and multipliers for a number ravas <ravas@outlook.com> - 2015-04-11 10:11 -0700

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