Prime Factors Calculator

I made this javascript prime factors calculator and have found it addictive. I just keep factorizing numbers. Enter the number to factorize in the left box and click on the 'factorize' button. The prime factors are shown in the right box.


I've never had a push button prime factor generator before.

You can easily check if a number is prime. It only has one prime factor: itself.

It's easy to generate a large prime number. Just type in a long random number and get its prime factors. If one of the factors is large, you've found a large prime number. If you don't get one, try changing your random number slightly.

For example: 384339387 gives 3,37,3462517. So 3462517 is a nice large prime number.

I like adding an extra digit and seeing what factors come out:

number	prime factors
11	11
111	3,37
1111	11,101
11111	41,271
111111	3,7,11,13,37
1111111	239,4649
11111111	11,73,101,137
111111111	3,3,37,333667
1111111111	11,41,271,9091
11111111111	21649,513239
111111111111	3,7,11,13,37,101,9901

All the numbers with an even number of ones have the factor 11. And those with 4, 8 and 12 ones have factors of 11 and 101 because 1111 = 11 X 101.

Those with an odd number of ones have only two prime factors, except 111111111 (nine ones). I wonder if there's something going on here?

Oh no, the next number lets me down: 1111111111111 has factors 53,79 and 265371653.

If you find any interesting patterns with this prime factors calculator, let me know.

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