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Answer by CopyPasteIt for How exactly does wheel factorization work and what...

The OP statesIt seems to almost be the same as the sieve of Eratosthenes except it starts with a small list of known prime numbers?That is correct. If you start off with just first two primes, $2$ and...

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Answer by Mahmood Dadkhah for How exactly does wheel factorization work and...

There are many useful context about "Wheel factorization" in Web. Consider for example:https://primes.utm.edu/glossary/page.php?sort=WheelFactorizationhttps://www.revolvy.com/page/Wheel-factorization

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Answer by Misha Lavrov for How exactly does wheel factorization work and what...

Since trial division is mostly useless for factoring large numbers, and using a prime number sieve for factoring is just a minor refinement of trial division, you shouldn't think of it as a...

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How exactly does wheel factorization work and what is it used for?

I would like to learn how to use wheel factorization but am having trouble understanding it. I tried reading the wikipedia article but found it confusing (even the talk page says it's a mess). What...

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