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by Karellen 1475 days ago
> Some problems, rather specific ones, such as prime factoring.

You don't need a quantum computer for that! I can factor arbitrarily large primes in my head. For any given prime p, it's factors are 1 and p. Done!

:-)

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I made the same remark in reply to another comment which used the phrase "factoring primes" :) Wikipedia does use the term "prime factorization": that seems legit to me, as prime is used as an adjective. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer_factorization
Another legitimate meaning might be "factoring probable primes" (or "candidate primes" as they are sometimes called in key generation/cryptanalysis), or possibly "factoring semiprimes".

Both of those phrases could be referred to as "prime factorisation" in a not-entirely-accurate-but-unambiguous-in-context shorthand.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probable_prime

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiprime