Hugo Arts wrote:

 n % y == 0 if n is divisible by y. This is useful in factoring prime
numbers

If you find a way to factor *prime numbers*, you're doing something wrong.

:)

(By definition, a prime number has no factors apart from itself and one, which are trivial.)

You mean, factorising numbers into the product of primes.



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Steven
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