I just found out about the '/usr/bin/factor' command and since it's part of the coreutils package, I'm curious if anyone here has actually incorporated it into a script. What are its practical uses?
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I haven't used it myself, but it looks like the official GNU documentation has more details about it if you're interested. Check it out!
I didn't realize its significance until now! Just a heads up, prime numbers are crucial since any positive integer can be expressed as a product of primes. It's a foundational concept in math. That said, not everyone finds it necessary, unless you're diving into group theory or cryptography.
That's a bit of a deep dive for sure! While it can be useful in specific contexts, most people don't care about prime factorization in everyday scripting.