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This is very inefficient algorithm to solve the problem. It takes Python more than 5 minutes to solve the problem with the number given
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import unittest | |
from math import sqrt | |
def isPrime(i): | |
if (i == 2 or i == 3): | |
return True | |
else: | |
for j in range(3, int(sqrt(i)+1)): | |
if ( i % j == 0): | |
return False | |
return True | |
def FindLargestPrimeFactor(number): | |
''' | |
Input: a number | |
Output: The largest prime factor of the number | |
Essentially checking for if all possible integers less then sqrt(number) are prime or not, then | |
return the largest one found. | |
''' | |
max = 0 | |
for i in range(3,int(sqrt(number)+1)): | |
if isPrime(i): | |
if (number % i == 0): | |
max = i | |
return max | |
def FindLargestPrimeFactor_2(number): | |
''' | |
''' | |
class Test(unittest.TestCase): | |
def test_FindLargestPrimeFactor(self): | |
self.assertEqual(FindLargestPrimeFactor(13195),29) | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
unittest.main(exit=False) | |
print(FindLargestPrimeFactor(600851475143)) |
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