QUERY: Coreutil "factor.exe" in Cygwin still stuck on an old & incorrect version (8.26) - was: Cygwin Digest 13 Dec 2019 16:20:42 -0000 Issue 11673 // Bug in "factor" (coreutils: GNU core utilities (8

2020-06-03 Thread Bernd Eggen
een built with some multi-precision integer arithmetic package (GNU MP ?) and goes to much larger values. ( echo '10^999' | bc | tr -d '\\' | tr -d '\012' ; echo '' ) | & factor_826.exe2^999 5^999 [I've used "x^n" as abbreviation - factor

Bug in "factor" (coreutils: GNU core utilities (8.26-2), 64bit edition)

2019-12-11 Thread Bernd Eggen
Hello, Some time ago I found that the Cygwin-64 "factor" command did not seem to terminate with certain numbers, eg try:   -> echo '3401347*3861211*12099721' | bc | factor The developers provided a fix (in GNU coreutils 8.29), however, after some two years I still find the faulty factor command