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ProjectEulerOctave/Problem3.m
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function [] = Problem3
%ProjectEuler/Octave/Problem3.m
%Matthew Ellison
% Created: 03-28-19
%Modified: 10-28-20
%The largest prime factor of 600851475143
%{
Copyright (C) 2020 Matthew Ellison
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
%}
%Setup your variables
number = 600851475143; %The number we are trying to find the greatest prime factor of
factors = []; %For the list of factors of number
%Get the prime numbers up to sqrt(number). If it is not prime there must be a value <= sqrt
primeNums = primes(sqrt(number));
%Start the timer
startTime = clock();
factors = factor(600851475143);
%Stop the timer
endTime = clock();
%Print the results
printf("The largest prime factor of 600851475143 is %d\n", max(factors))
printf("It took %f seconds to run this algorithm\n", etime(endTime, startTime))
end
%{
Results:
The largest prime factor of 600851475143 is 6857
It took 0.005714 seconds to run this algorithm
%}