Either use my PrimeFactorization class that I wrote here (the largest factor in the prime factorization result), or use just the necessary component of it (below) to find the largest prime factor.
import java.math.BigInteger;
/**
* The prime factors of 13195 are 5, 7, 13 and 29.
* What is the largest prime factor of the number 600851475143 ?
*/
public class Problem_3_Largest_Prime_Factor {
public static void main(String[] args) {
System.out.println(findLargestPrimeFactor(600851475143L));
System.out.println(findLargestBigPrimeFactor(new BigInteger("600851475143")));
}
/**
* Returns the largest prime factor of n.
*/
public static long findLargestPrimeFactor(long n) {
long primeFactor = 1L;
long i = 2L;
while (i <= n / i) {
if (n % i == 0) {
primeFactor = i;
n /= i;
} else {
i++;
}
}
if (primeFactor < n) primeFactor = n;
return primeFactor;
}
/**
* Returns the largest prime factor of n.
*/
public static BigInteger findLargestBigPrimeFactor(BigInteger n) {
BigInteger primeFactor = BigInteger.ONE;
BigInteger i = new BigInteger("2");
while (i.compareTo(n.divide(i)) <= 0) {
if (n.mod(i).longValue() == 0) {
primeFactor = i;
n = n.divide(i);
} else {
i = i.add(BigInteger.ONE);
}
}
if (primeFactor.compareTo(n) < 0) primeFactor = n;
return primeFactor;
}
}
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Created: May 11, 2014
Last Updated: May 10, 2020
Completed in full by: Michael Yaworski