From: Glenn Jackman Date: 2009-08-21T03:30:07+09:00 Subject: Re: How do I estimate how long it will take a calculation to complete? At 2009-08-20 02:03PM, "William Rutiser" wrote: > Now that you have a little experience with the problem, to see what you > were up against, see > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_factorization And http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Prime_decomposition to see implementations in several languages, Ruby included. -- Glenn Jackman Write a wise saying and your name will live forever. -- Anonymous