From: Victor Reyes <victor.reyes@...>
Date: 2007-05-05T04:34:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Help with bigbnum

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Brian,

Actually, NO. This is not a homework questions. It is, however and
unfortunately, an issue of my deficiency and lack of knowledge of the
language.
For pure and simple intellectual curiosity, I am attempting to write a ruby
pgm to find perfect numbers.
The largest perfect number found to this date, if I believe website
http://amicable.homepage.dk/perfect.htm  is: (2**32582656) * (2**32582657 -
1).
Been the neophyte that I am, I thought about picking it up from there and
play with it, since I have at my disposal a very large IBM multiprocessor
environment.
I know that Brute force is not the way, but I don't have a nice algorithm to
use.

Thank you

Victor

On 5/4/07, Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 02:10:58AM +0900, Victor Reyes wrote:
> > I am trying to use the following computation:  232582656(232582657-1)
> >
> > n = (2**32582656) * (2**32582657 - 1)
>
> Homework question? Brute force probably isn't the way :-)
>
>

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