On Sun, 12 Apr 2015 02:24 pm, Paul Rubin wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> writes: >> Ah, the penny drops! Are you using Python 2.7 with old-style division? >> That would explain it. > > Yes, see also the use of the print statement in that post. I'm > surprised the code compiled at all in Python 3.
I wasn't using Python 3. I was using 2.7 with "from __future__ import division", as the BDFL intended :-) >> Nice! Except that your fac() function has a bug: it includes 1 as a prime >> factor for some values, which is strictly incorrect. > > Good catch, I noticed that too after posting. > > This might be of interest: > > http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/54707/1/WRAP_Hart_S1446788712000146a.pdf > > I haven't tried figuring it out or coding it yet. Thanks! -- Steven -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
