Received: (at submit) by bugs.debian.org; 23 May 2000 04:12:17 +0000 From brianr@osiris.978.org Mon May 22 23:12:17 2000 Return-path: Received: from bluebox.ne.mediaone.net (osiris.978.org) [24.218.185.2] (qmailr) by master.debian.org with smtp (Exim 3.12 #2 (Debian)) id 12u63E-0005Cb-00; Mon, 22 May 2000 23:12:16 -0500 Received: (qmail 18921 invoked by uid 1000); 23 May 2000 04:12:15 -0000 Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 00:12:15 -0400 From: Brian Ristuccia To: submit@bugs.debian.org Subject: factor refuses to factor large composite numbers Message-ID: <20000523001215.L1301@osiris.978.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0.1i Delivered-To: submit@bugs.debian.org Package: shellutils Version: 2.0-6 Instead of displaying the factorization for 340282366920938463463374607431768211456, which should look like: 340282366920938463463374607431768211456: 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 GNU factor displays "`340282366920938463463374607431768211456' is not a valid positive integer" instead. -- Brian Ristuccia brian@ristuccia.com bristucc@cs.uml.edu