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really long number - 8/9/2007 6:02:00 AM

RobertParker

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I've been really bored at work, so I've been trying to solve a bunch of the problems on http://projecteuler.net/ with vbscript. I've already gotten 9 of them done, but I need to take the prime factorization of this number: 317,584,931,803

A long in vbscript maxes out at 2 Billion, and this is 317 Billion. I already have the algorithm written, and it works correctly.

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RE: really long number - 8/9/2007 6:09:22 AM

ebgreen

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I have done a lot of those problems (I haven't done any in a long time so my account is probably inactive) regardless, VBScript is simply not capable of doing a lot of those problems do to limitations like the one that you have already found. I did most of my solutions in Python although last week I started learning Lisp so I may stsrt using it.

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RE: really long number - 8/9/2007 6:46:47 AM

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I'm beginning to notice that too. I did 9 of them, and now I've hit limitations in vbScript in the last 4 of tried to do.

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