September 30, 2005
7:30 am

Courant & Robbins [p. 23]
I have generated 5 prime numbers using Euclid's method. Now to check that I haven't made any errors.

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Ooops!! Factor isn't doing what I thought it was.

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There, that is the function I want. Now...

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That hurts. There are some factors. I did make a mistake.

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Dummy. I was right all along. I didn't look closely at the output. All of the factors were prime numbers. Still, there is a lesson here as well.

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