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From: Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk>
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On 02/09/2015 16:49, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> Richard Heathfield<rjh@cpax.org.uk>  writes:
>
<snip>
>>  perhaps it's for the best - if he explained, we would say (just as
>>  Watson said after Holmes had explained a deduction) "Oh, how absurdly
>>  simple!" So let's just applaud Ben and spare him his blushes.
>
> It's embarrassing only because I did nothing interesting.  I ran 'gp'
> and typed
>
>   factor(6666666666666666666666666666666664295863450544367679162527001239842359)
>
> at the prompt just to see if it could, and after minute or two it
> replied:
>
>    %1 =
>    [67499999992406250000094921874999003 1]
>    [98765432109876543210987654321098453 1]

Oh, how absurdly simple!

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