IBM Ponder This 04-17 Solved

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Ponder This 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. Hint: The challenge is solvable in seconds of CPU time. The Bonus requires some creative view, but can be solved in seconds too.

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