exercism/jq/prime-factors

Prime Factors

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Instructions

Compute the prime factors of a given natural number.

A prime number is only evenly divisible by itself and 1.

Note that 1 is not a prime number.

Example

What are the prime factors of 60?

• Our first divisor is 2. 2 goes into 60, leaving 30.
• 2 goes into 30, leaving 15.
  • 2 doesn't go cleanly into 15. So let's move on to our next divisor, 3.
• 3 goes cleanly into 15, leaving 5.
  • 3 does not go cleanly into 5. The next possible factor is 4.
  • 4 does not go cleanly into 5. The next possible factor is 5.
• 5 does go cleanly into 5.
• We're left only with 1, so now, we're done.

Our successful divisors in that computation represent the list of prime factors of 60: 2, 2, 3, and 5.

You can check this yourself:

2 * 2 * 3 * 5
= 4 * 15
= 60

Success!

Source

Created by

• @glennj

Based on

The Prime Factors Kata by Uncle Bob - https://web.archive.org/web/20221026171801/http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.ThePrimeFactorsKata