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Kristofer Koishigawa 6cfd0fc503 fix: improve Project Euler descriptions, challenge seeds, and test cases (#38016)
* fix: improve Project Euler descriptions and test case

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* feat: add typeof tests and gave functions proper names for first 100 challenges

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id, challengeType, title, forumTopicId
id challengeType title forumTopicId
5900f36f1000cf542c50fe82 5 Problem 3: Largest prime factor 301952

Description

The prime factors of 13195 are 5, 7, 13 and 29.

What is the largest prime factor of the given number?

Instructions

Tests

tests:
  - text: <code>largestPrimeFactor(2)</code> should return a number.
    testString: assert(typeof largestPrimeFactor(2) === 'number');
  - text: <code>largestPrimeFactor(2)</code> should return 2.
    testString: assert.strictEqual(largestPrimeFactor(2), 2);
  - text: <code>largestPrimeFactor(3)</code> should return 3.
    testString: assert.strictEqual(largestPrimeFactor(3), 3);
  - text: <code>largestPrimeFactor(5)</code> should return 5.
    testString: assert.strictEqual(largestPrimeFactor(5), 5);
  - text: <code>largestPrimeFactor(7)</code> should return 7.
    testString: assert.strictEqual(largestPrimeFactor(7), 7);
  - text: <code>largestPrimeFactor(13195)</code> should return 29.
    testString: assert.strictEqual(largestPrimeFactor(13195), 29);
  - text: <code>largestPrimeFactor(600851475143)</code> should return 6857.
    testString: assert.strictEqual(largestPrimeFactor(600851475143), 6857);

Challenge Seed

function largestPrimeFactor(number) {
  // Good luck!
  return true;
}

largestPrimeFactor(13195);

Solution

const largestPrimeFactor = (number)=>{
  let largestFactor = number;
  for(let i = 2;i<largestFactor;i++){
  if(!(largestFactor%i)){
    largestFactor = largestFactor/i;
    largestPrimeFactor(largestFactor);
  }
  }
  return largestFactor;
}