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Re:The Factorization of RSA-240 by lokedhs on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:07AM (#21699752)
I will take the opportunity to promote Maxima, which is a very nice open source maths tool with a very long history (started in the 60's, and still being developed). It leverages the bignum support in Common Lisp, and has no problems handling numbers like these.

http://maxima.sourceforge.net/

https://wxmaxima-developers.github.io/wxmaxima/

You can use Maxima's built-in command "factor" on this number as well, although I guess you'll have to be very patient.

I obviously also want to promote my own project, which is different UI on top of Maxima:

https://flathub.org/apps/details/com.dhsdevelopments.Climaxi...

Re:The Factorization of RSA-240 by kazinator on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:16AM (#21700483)
Bignums are there because of Macsyma (Maxima's ancestor)!

"Bignums—arbitrary precision integer arithmetic—were added [to MacLisp] in 1970 or 1971 to meet the needs of Macsyma users."

[https://www.dreamsongs.com/Files/HOPL2-Uncut.pdf, P. 10 bottom]