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| | Back When I Was Smart |
 | | Those numbers which have broken people's souls and left them to rot in the hell of misery--thrice damned by the alienation of friends, family, and reason. |
 | | And the minimum number of factors always found for composite number is two since one of the factors represents the groups, and the other the number of ones in a group. |
 | | So what happens is that this algorithm basically divides the number by 2 at the first step, 3 at the first \1+ invocation, 4, 5, 6, 7, and so on, with the grouping of the ones being one of the factors and the number of ones in each group being the other factor. |
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