I was impressed by AI again, how it can write and execute a program to factorize a number, all on its own.
I had a presentation on bitcoin mining, and to illustrate asymmetric cost of some arithmetical operations, I used the below example. I offered a bounty on the factorization of 9508762877, to better engage the audiance:
I picked a number large enough so that it's unfeasible to solve by trying with a calculator (5-digit primes).
To my surprise, in about 10 seconds, I got the right answer!
The winner (l0rinc) used AI, with this minimal prompt:
```
factorize 9508762877
```
which gave the correct result quickly.
How? Internally, it created this Python script, and executed it:
```python
import sympy
# Number to factor
number = 9508762877
# Factorize the number
factors = sympy.factorint(number)
factors
```
Really cool! (Note: not all AI's are capable of this)
I picked a number large enough so that it's unfeasible to solve by trying with a calculator (5-digit primes).
To my surprise, in about 10 seconds, I got the right answer!
The winner (l0rinc) used AI, with this minimal prompt:
```
factorize 9508762877
```
which gave the correct result quickly.
How? Internally, it created this Python script, and executed it:
```python
import sympy
# Number to factor
number = 9508762877
# Factorize the number
factors = sympy.factorint(number)
factors
```
Really cool! (Note: not all AI's are capable of this)
