For the factorization of large integers I have become somewhat dependent on
factordb.com and Dario Alpern's
ECM Java applet. With my
new Mac/OS I have, so far, gone without the latter but today I enabled Java in my web browser, only to find that my large numbers would not paste
into the ECM app, nor could I copy any factors
out of it. After a little searching, I finally came up with a fix: I downloaded Alpern's ECM source code, opened Terminal, gave the ECM folder-location path (using the
cd command), compiled it (
javac ecm.java), and ran it (
java ecm). The applet appears
sans browser and copy/paste work fine.
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