Largest Integer Divisor

[Echoing]

I need to drawraw a flowchart for a algorithm which finds the largest proper divisor of n (that is, the largest m such that 1 <= m < n and m evenly divides n). You can use the % operator: recall that n % m is the remainder when n is divided by m.

I need to test it on numbers such as 8,876,044,532,898,802,067 and 2,305,843,009,213,693,951..

so far I have
public class xc14 {

public static long maxDiv(long n )
{
int m = 2;
while(m <= (int) Math.sqrt(n))
{
// ...
}
return 1;
}

can anyone help?

[r035198x]

I need to drawraw a flowchart for a algorithm which finds the largest proper divisor of n (that is, the largest m such that 1 <= m < n and m evenly divides n). You can use the % operator: recall that n % m is the remainder when n is divided by m.

I need to test it on numbers such as 8,876,044,532,898,802,067 and 2,305,843,009,213,693,951..

so far I have
public class xc14 {

public static long maxDiv(long n )
{
int m = 2;
while(m <= (int) Math.sqrt(n))
{
// ...
}
return 1;
}

can anyone help?

So where have you used the % operator like was suggested?

[Echoing]

lol thats why im confused....

[r035198x]

lol thats why im confused....

But you are trying to find numbers which divide perfectly into a given number N, For those numbers N % number is zero.

[JosAH]

Suppose for a number N you have to find the largest proper divisor; this is equivalent
to finding its smallest proper divisior; suppose the smalles one is 'S'; this implies
that S*L == N where L happens to be the largest proper divisor of N.

kind regards,

Jos

[r035198x]

Suppose for a number N you have to find the largest proper divisor; this is equivalent
to finding its smallest proper divisior; suppose the smalles one is 'S'; this implies
that S*L == N where L happens to be the largest proper divisor of N.

kind regards,

Jos

Spoil sport

[JosAH]

Spoil sport

I really thought that this thread would brings us to BigIntegers and such; what
I wrote is trivial isn't it?

kind regards,

Jos

[r035198x]

I really thought that this thread would brings us to BigIntegers and such; what
I wrote is trivial isn't it?

kind regards,

Jos

We'll need to get to BigIntegers at some point.

You couldn't have written anything more trivial if you had tried.