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NEWS.8.md: Add text about factor behavior.
author Arun Giridhar <arungiridhar@gmail.com>
date Mon, 07 Nov 2022 16:50:39 -0500
parents 97057039b835
children 88fff8521d76
files etc/NEWS.8.md
diffstat 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/NEWS.8.md	Mon Nov 07 18:21:23 2022 +0100
+++ b/etc/NEWS.8.md	Mon Nov 07 16:50:39 2022 -0500
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
   outward normal vectors.  Input type checking has also been added for
   improved error handling.
 
+- `factor` now factorizes all 64-bit integers in roughly the same time.
+  Previously, the product of two large primes took much longer to factorize
+  than highly composite inputs.
+
 - `Refine` option is now implemented in functions `ode45`, `ode23`, 
   and `ode23s`.