Thread: Help with factorize function

Hello HELP Ok I have an assignment due in 5 days. I have done everything except for one function. This function finds the smallests factors of a positive int & it multiplicities, Have I lost you yet, dont worry because I've been lost for a week now with this function :P Heres the funny part... we are given the algorithm!! But I cannot for the life of me understand it. I have rewritten, written, pulled my hair out for days trying...

It would help a LOT if you would insert comments (with the steps from that algorithm) into your code, so that you can see what is done and where. Something like that: Code: // positive integer I is given void factor(int I) { // P = 1 int P = 1; int mult; // while (I > 1) while (I > 1) { // P = P + 1 P = P+1; // what is this line for??? I = I/P; // if I mod P != 0 go back to previous statement // now what?