FACTOR.PL(1)

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version 0.74 · 5 versions
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💖 NAME 💖

factor.pl — Print prime factors 🧚✨

Oh and btw bestie, this whole thing lives in the User Commands part of the manual, section 1 — the one for actual runnable commands, not those library pages. Slay.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

factor.pl [options] [number] ...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

Okay so here's the whole vibe: factor.pl prints the prime factors of every positive integer you hand it on the command line. And if you call it with no arguments at all? It just sits there and reads numbers from standard input instead. Iconic, honestly. 🫶

The tea is that you can also feed it math expressions as arguments, and they get evaluated before factoring happens. This includes most Math::Prime::Util functions — stuff like prime_count(#), nth_prime(#), primorial(#), random_nbit_prime(#), etc. So yeah, you can get a lil fancy with it. 💅

Here's the options, bestie:

  • --help — displays this help message 🙈
  • --version — displays the version information ⭐
  • --verbose — as we factor, display information about what we're doing, so you can watch the whole process unfurl like main character energy ✨

Lowkey important context: this thing is part of the Math::Prime::Util 0.74 package, and it's just wrapping the factor() function. If you want the full lore, see man Math::Prime::Util for more information. No cap. 📚

👑 AUTHOR 👑

Written by Dana Jacobsen. Legend behavior, fr fr. 💜

aaaand that's the whole page, bestie — go factor something 💖

Signing off cute: this was factor.pl version 1.2 using Ma... (the manual cuts it off right there, we're just reporting what we see 🙈), dated August 2026. 🎀🦋🌸

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