Re: Surrogate factoring works very well

Joseph Ashwood wrote:
... Starting at 10 bits
of actual input length it generated the first failure for 53762053 which
should factor to 6599 and 8147.

Perhaps it is worth noting that the antique Unix "factor" utility
correctly factored that number in a small fraction of a second.
If surrogate factoring is to be taken seriously, it needs to do
at least as well.
.