""" Project Euler Problem 3: https://projecteuler.net/problem=3 Largest prime factor The prime factors of 13195 are 5, 7, 13 and 29. What is the largest prime factor of the number 600851475143? References: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number#Unique_factorization """ import math def is_prime(number: int) -> bool: """Checks to see if a number is a prime in O(sqrt(n)). A number is prime if it has exactly two factors: 1 and itself. Returns boolean representing primality of given number (i.e., if the result is true, then the number is indeed prime else it is not). >>> is_prime(2) True >>> is_prime(3) True >>> is_prime(27) False >>> is_prime(2999) True >>> is_prime(0) False >>> is_prime(1) False """ if 1 < number < 4: # 2 and 3 are primes return True elif number < 2 or number % 2 == 0 or number % 3 == 0: # Negatives, 0, 1, all even numbers, all multiples of 3 are not primes return False # All primes number are in format of 6k +/- 1 for i in range(5, int(math.sqrt(number) + 1), 6): if number % i == 0 or number % (i + 2) == 0: return False return True def solution(n: int = 600851475143) -> int: """ Returns the largest prime factor of a given number n. >>> solution(13195) 29 >>> solution(10) 5 >>> solution(17) 17 >>> solution(3.4) 3 >>> solution(0) Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: Parameter n must be greater than or equal to one. >>> solution(-17) Traceback (most recent call last): ... ValueError: Parameter n must be greater than or equal to one. >>> solution([]) Traceback (most recent call last): ... TypeError: Parameter n must be int or castable to int. >>> solution("asd") Traceback (most recent call last): ... TypeError: Parameter n must be int or castable to int. """ try: n = int(n) except (TypeError, ValueError): raise TypeError("Parameter n must be int or castable to int.") if n <= 0: raise ValueError("Parameter n must be greater than or equal to one.") max_number = 0 if is_prime(n): return n while n % 2 == 0: n //= 2 if is_prime(n): return n for i in range(3, int(math.sqrt(n)) + 1, 2): if n % i == 0: if is_prime(n // i): max_number = n // i break elif is_prime(i): max_number = i return max_number if __name__ == "__main__": print(f"{solution() = }")