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diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index f40993ec1..73971c6a6 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -15470,7 +15470,7 @@ M8=`echo 2^31-1|bc` ; M9=`echo 2^61-1|bc` Similarly, factoring the eighth Fermat number @math{2^{256}+1} takes about 20 seconds on the same machine. -Factoring large prime numbers is, in general, hard. The Pollard Rho +Factoring large numbers is, in general, hard. The Pollard Rho algorithm used by @command{factor} is particularly effective for numbers with relatively small factors. If you wish to factor large numbers which do not have small factors (for example, numbers which |