[Tutor] Something to tack on to "Useless Python" challenges

[Pedro Diaz Jimenez]

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On Sunday 03 June 2001 14:21, Lloyd Hugh Allen wrote:
> http://www.rsasecurity.com/rsalabs/challenges/factoring/numbers.html
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> Python should be up to the task...
>
> Anyone have a module lying around for torking with arbitrarily large
> numbers (in Python)?
MPZ module should do the job, but...
This is (in my opinion) the type of job not suited python. A C program would 
do the same job, faster

Cheers

Pedro
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