Compute the prime factors of a given natural number.

A prime number is only evenly divisible by itself and 1.

Note that 1 is not a prime number.

What are the prime factors of 60?

• Our first divisor is 2. 2 goes into 60, leaving 30.
• 2 goes into 30, leaving 15.
  • 2 doesn't go cleanly into 15. So let's move on to our next divisor, 3.
• 3 goes cleanly into 15, leaving 5.
  • 3 does not go cleanly into 5. The next possible factor is 4.
  • 4 does not go cleanly into 5. The next possible factor is 5.
• 5 does go cleanly into 5.
• We're left only with 1, so now, we're done.

Our successful divisors in that computation represent the list of prime factors of 60: 2, 2, 3, and 5.

You can check this yourself:

• 2 * 2 * 3 * 5
• = 4 * 15
• = 60
• Success!

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$ cargo test

All but the first test have been ignored. After you get the first test to pass, open the tests source file which is located in the tests directory and remove the #[ignore] flag from the next test and get the tests to pass again. Each separate test is a function with #[test] flag above it. Continue, until you pass every test.

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$ cargo test -- --ignored

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$ cargo test some_test

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The Prime Factors Kata by Uncle Bob http://butunclebob.com/ArticleS.UncleBob.ThePrimeFactorsKata

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