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interstice ([personal profile] interstice) wrote2008-12-06 12:07 am

inconsistently prescient

"Can the reader say what two numbers multiplied together will produce the number 8616460799? I think it unlikely that anyone but myself will ever know."

Jevons; The Principles of Science, 1874.

I can't help myself:

random_walker@homeless:~$ time factor 8616460799
8616460799: 89681 96079

real 0m0.006s
user 0m0.004s
sys 0m0.000s

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