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I still don't really understand what "largest minimal factor" means. Does it mean that you have to take the smallest prime factors of each number and find the largest one of those numbers? The "that is" parenthetical doesn't really help. --[[User:Mwn3d|Mwn3d]] 05:42, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
:I read it as saying that what was needed was a number from those given, that has large prime factors. The way they find such a number is to find the lowest of the prime factors of all the numbers and select a number which has this [[largest]] of these [[lowest]] prime factors.
:As an example, the numbers 22, 33, 44, 55, and 275 have lowest prime factors of 2, 3, 2, 5, and 5 respectively. The largest of these minimum prime factors is 5. A compliant routine could return ''either'' the number 55 with its prime factors 5 and 11; ''or'' the number 275 with its prime factors 5, 5, and 11. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 06:12, 8 January 2011 (UTC)
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