Oops, realized after posting that there's a bug in my code - it
returns 1 for a perfect square. Need another check in the 'while'
loop, thus:

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> exec 600851475143; for (int i=2;i<ret;++i) while (ret%i==0 && ret>i) ret/=i
>
>  while not ret%i and ret>i:

Definitely room for improvement here!

ChrisA
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