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Researchers believe that it takes existing computers a long time to factorize big numbers, partly because no one has yet discovered how to do it quickly.
From Nature ● Sep. 7, 2015
But quantum computers could factorize a large number exponentially faster than any conventional computer, and this nullifies RSA’s reliance on factoring being difficult.
From Nature ● Sep. 7, 2015
O'Brien, who admits that his 4-year-old daughter can factorize 21 faster than his computer, is optimistic about the future.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2013
In the case of 63 above, the number is odd; so we factorize at once, 1 × 63, 3 × 21, 7 × 9.
From Amusements in Mathematics by Dudeney, Henry Ernest
“Recovering somewhat from the shock, he sought again and again for employment; but his short-sighted and relentless creditors would factorize his earnings, and thus oblige him to leave.”
From The Cabin on the Prairie by Pearson, C. H. (Charles Henry)
The transformation of the pure generating function into a factorized redundant form supplies the key to the solution of a large number of questions in the theory of ordinary permutations, as will be seen later.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
For example, factorizing a 2,000-bit number in one day, a task believed to be intractable using classical computers3, would take 100 million qubits, even if individual quantum operations failed just once in every 10,000 operations.
From Nature ● Mar. 2, 2017
The quintessential example is factorizing: like splitting 21 into 3 × 7, but with numbers hundreds of digits long.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 19, 2013
In 2001, for instance, physicists at IBM's Almaden Research Center in San Jose and Stanford University, both in California, used a 7-qubit system to implement Shor's algorithm, factorizing the number 15 into 5 and 3.
From Nature ● Jun. 1, 2011
As mechanization increased, many began to speak of agriculture in industrial terms, believing that "factorizing" the farm would solve its problems.
From Frying Pan Farm by Pryor, Elizabeth Brown
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