April 2017 - Challenge
IBM recently announced a commercial Quantum computer. Such a computer can factor large numbers, using a Shor algorithm.
The challenge this month is to factor at least one of the following three numbers:
- 27771495424394652906650011597233066116343506387184320546233728271726480989807112498372640545334956743914011373
- 98296593067163321549931012857525979998165090637663230976866143160359417516252340928637985390415053795128313
- 1412534667091752138605679066750993949837793629454397369052717798704788621599573184763086599428517731585079
Bonus '*' if you factor all three.
We will post the names of those who submit a correct, original solution! If you don't want your name posted then please include such a statement in your submission!
We invite visitors to our website to submit an elegant solution. Send your submission to the ponder@il.ibm.com.
If you have any problems you think we might enjoy, please send them in. All replies should be sent to: ponder@il.ibm.com
Challenge:
29/03/2017 @ 12:00 PM EST
Solution:
02/05/2017 @ 12:00 PM EST
List Updated:
06/04/2017 @ 12:00 PM EST
People who answered correctly:
Reiner Martin (27/03/2017 03:15 PM time IDT)
*Robert Gerbicz (27/03/2017 04:43 PM time IDT)
*Benjamin Buhrow (27/03/2017 06:49 PM time IDT)
Bert Dobbelaere (27/03/2017 08:39 PM time IDT)
*Serge Batalov (28/03/2017 12:24 AM time IDT)
George Barnett (28/03/2017 09:53 AM time IDT)
*Tom Womack (28/03/2017 12:44 PM time IDT)
*Mike Vang (28/03/2017 02:30 PM time IDT)
Andreas Stiller (28/03/2017 06:51 PM time IDT)
Raymond Lo (28/03/2017 07:23 PM time IDT)
JJ Rabeyrin (29/03/2017 02:38 AM time IDT)
David Owen (29/03/2017 04:45 AM time IDT)
Serge-Gautier (29/03/2017 05:05 PM time IDT)
Yan-Wu He (29/03/2017 10:38 PM time IDT)
*Stéphane Higueret (30/03/2017 09:19 AM time IDT)
Yoav Kaempfer (30/03/2017 11:52 AM time IDT)
*Anatoly Vorobey (30/03/2017 12:02 AM time IDT)
*Andreas Höglund (30/03/2017 02:51 PM time IDT)
*David F.H. Dunkley (30/03/2017 08:40 PM time IDT)
*Michael Liepelt (31/03/2017 09:55 AM time IDT)
Joaquim Neves Carrapa (31/03/2017 05:31 PM time IDT)
Kurt Foster (31/03/2017 11:13 PM time IDT)
*Sergey Koposov (02/04/2017 02:14 AM time IDT)
*Sergey Koposov (02/04/2017 02:14 AM time IDT)
Shirish Chinchalkar (02/04/2017 07:21 PM time IDT)
*Robert Franke (02/04/2017 09:45 PM time IDT)
Oleg Vlasii (03/04/2017 01:16 AM time IDT)
*Chris Shannon (03/04/2017 09:27 AM time IDT)
*Yan-Wu He (03/04/2017 06:20 PM time IDT)
*Leonid Kalmankin (03/04/2017 08:40 PM time IDT)
Steven Langerwerf (04/04/2017 09:55 AM time IDT)
*Vladimir M. Milovanović (04/04/2017 10:27 AM time IDT)
Benjamin Lui (04/04/2017 02:07 PM time IDT)
*Don Leclair (04/04/2017 02:20 PM time IDT)
*Daniëlle van den Berg (05/04/2017 12:18 AM time IDT)
*Antonio García Astudillo (05/04/2017 12:45 AM time IDT)