Primes and Factorization
Use the operation factor to factor integers.
It returns an object of type
Factored Integer. See Factored for a
discussion of the manipulation of factored objects.
The operation prime? returns true or false
depending on whether its argument is a prime.
The operation nextPrime returns the
least prime number greater than its argument.
The operation prevPrime returns the
greatest prime number less than its argument.
To compute all primes between two integers (inclusively), use the
operation primes.
You might sometimes want to see the factorization of an integer
when it is considered a Gaussian (that is, complex) integer. See
Complex for more details.
