On Tue, Jan 5, 2021 at 11:07 AM Beartooth <bearto...@comcast.net> wrote:
>         Having begun life as a mathematician (BA 1961), I still sometimes
> play with numbers, whether or not I'm near a computer. I mostly start by
> factoring them, so that I know  what I've got. But I get lost juggling
> more than about two or three three-digit numbers.
>
>         It would be nice to have a factoring applet -- which wouldn't
> need to be vast nor intense enough to come anywhere near cryptographic
> use, but just as a mildly entertaining time waster.
>
>         My guess is that it exists, and is either already in Fedora, or
> can be handily installed. Anybody know?

If a command line tool suits you, run the "factor" command:

$ factor 2345234
2345234: 2 271 4327

It's part of coreutils, so should be installed on every Fedora system.
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/
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