I was impressed by AI again, how it can write and execute a program to factorize a number, all on its own.

I had a presentation on bitcoin mining, and to illustrate asymmetric cost of some arithmetical operations, I used the below example. I offered a bounty on the factorization of 9508762877, to better engage the audiance:

I picked a number large enough so that it's unfeasible to solve by trying with a calculator (5-digit primes).

To my surprise, in about 10 seconds, I got the right answer!

The winner (l0rinc) used AI, with this minimal prompt:

```

factorize 9508762877

```

which gave the correct result quickly.

How? Internally, it created this Python script, and executed it:

```python

import sympy

# Number to factor

number = 9508762877

# Factorize the number

factors = sympy.factorint(number)

factors

```

Really cool! (Note: not all AI's are capable of this)