Calculating very large exponents in python

Mark Dickinson dickinsm at gmail.com
Wed Mar 10 12:51:23 EST 2010


On Mar 9, 1:54 pm, casevh <cas... at gmail.com> wrote:
> After a few hours, the remaining factors are
>
> 6060517860310398033985611921721
>
> and
>
> 9941808367425935774306988776021629111399536914790551022447994642391
>
> casevh

Whoops---I missed this.  I'm too slow!  But at least my answers agree
with yours.  (Factoring 10**78+1 took around 7 seconds using GP/Pari
on a 2.5 GHz MacBook;  factoring the remaining quotient n / (10**78+1)
was much quicker.)

--
Mark



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