[c++] Efficiently getting all divisors of a given number

According to this post, we can get all divisors of a number through the following codes.

for (int i = 1; i <= num; ++i){
    if (num % i == 0)
        cout << i << endl;
}

For example, the divisors of number 24 are 1 2 3 4 6 8 12 24.

After searching some related posts, I did not find any good solutions. Is there any efficient way to accomplish this?

My solution:

  1. Find all prime factors of the given number through this solution.
  2. Get all possible combinations of those prime factors.

However, it doesn't seem to be a good one.

This question is related to c++ algorithm math factorization

The answer is


for( int i = 1; i * i <= num; i++ )
{
/* upto sqrt is because every divisor after sqrt
    is also found when the number is divided by i.
   EXAMPLE like if number is 90 when it is divided by 5
    then you can also see that 90/5 = 18
    where 18 also divides the number.
   But when number is a perfect square
    then num / i == i therefore only i is the factor
*/

There is no efficient way in the sense of algorithmic complexity (an algorithm with polynomial complexity) known in science by now. So iterating until the square root as already suggested is mostly as good as you can be.

Mainly because of this, a large part of the currently used cryptography is based on the assumption that it is very time consuming to compute a prime factorization of any given integer.


You should really check till square root of num as sqrt(num) * sqrt(num) = num:

Something on these lines:

int square_root = (int) sqrt(num) + 1;
for (int i = 1; i < square_root; i++) { 
    if (num % i == 0&&i*i!=num)
        cout << i << num/i << endl;
    if (num % i == 0&&i*i==num)
        cout << i << '\n';
}

Here's my code:

#include <iostream>
#include <vector>
#include <algorithm>
#include <cmath>

using namespace std;

#define pii pair<int, int>

#define MAX 46656
#define LMT 216
#define LEN 4830
#define RNG 100032

unsigned base[MAX / 64], segment[RNG / 64], primes[LEN];

#define sq(x) ((x)*(x))
#define mset(x,v) memset(x,v,sizeof(x))
#define chkC(x,n) (x[n>>6]&(1<<((n>>1)&31)))
#define setC(x,n) (x[n>>6]|=(1<<((n>>1)&31)))

// http://zobayer.blogspot.com/2009/09/segmented-sieve.html
void sieve()
{
    unsigned i, j, k;
    for (i = 3; i<LMT; i += 2)
        if (!chkC(base, i))
            for (j = i*i, k = i << 1; j<MAX; j += k)
                setC(base, j);
    primes[0] = 2;
    for (i = 3, j = 1; i<MAX; i += 2)
        if (!chkC(base, i))
            primes[j++] = i;
}


//http://www.geeksforgeeks.org/print-all-prime-factors-of-a-given-number/
vector <pii> factors;
void primeFactors(int num)
{
    int expo = 0;   
    for (int i = 0; primes[i] <= sqrt(num); i++)
    {
        expo = 0;
        int prime = primes[i];
        while (num % prime == 0){
            expo++;
            num = num / prime;
        }
        if (expo>0)
            factors.push_back(make_pair(prime, expo));
    }

    if ( num >= 2)
        factors.push_back(make_pair(num, 1));

}

vector <int> divisors;
void setDivisors(int n, int i) {
    int j, x, k;
    for (j = i; j<factors.size(); j++) {
        x = factors[j].first * n;
        for (k = 0; k<factors[j].second; k++) {
            divisors.push_back(x);
            setDivisors(x, j + 1);
            x *= factors[j].first;
        }
    }
}

int main() {

    sieve();
    int n, x, i; 
    cin >> n;
    for (int i = 0; i < n; i++) {
        cin >> x;
        primeFactors(x);
        setDivisors(1, 0);
        divisors.push_back(1);
        sort(divisors.begin(), divisors.end());
        cout << divisors.size() << "\n";
        for (int j = 0; j < divisors.size(); j++) {
            cout << divisors[j] << " "; 
        }
        cout << "\n";
        divisors.clear();
        factors.clear();
    }
}

The first part, sieve() is used to find the prime numbers and put them in primes[] array. Follow the link to find more about that code (bitwise sieve).

The second part primeFactors(x) takes an integer (x) as input and finds out its prime factors and corresponding exponent, and puts them in vector factors[]. For example, primeFactors(12) will populate factors[] in this way:

factors[0].first=2, factors[0].second=2
factors[1].first=3, factors[1].second=1

as 12 = 2^2 * 3^1

The third part setDivisors() recursively calls itself to calculate all the divisors of x, using the vector factors[] and puts them in vector divisors[].

It can calculate divisors of any number which fits in int. Also it is quite fast.


Here is the Java Implementation of this approach:

public static int countAllFactors(int num)
{
    TreeSet<Integer> tree_set = new TreeSet<Integer>();
    for (int i = 1; i * i <= num; i+=1)
    {
        if (num % i == 0)
        {
            tree_set.add(i);
            tree_set.add(num / i);
        }
    }
    System.out.print(tree_set);
    return tree_set.size();
}

Plenty of good solutions exist for finding all the prime factors of not too large numbers. I just wanted to point out, that once you have them, no computation is required to get all the factors.

if N = p_1^{a}*p_{2}^{b}*p_{3}^{c}.....

Then the number of factors is clearly (a+1)(b+1)(c+1).... since every factor can occur zero up to a times.

e.g. 12 = 2^2*3^1 so it has 3*2 = 6 factors. 1,2,3,4,6,12

======

I originally thought that you just wanted the number of distinct factors. But the same logic applies. You just iterate over the set of numbers corresponding to the possible combinations of exponents.

so int he example above:

00
01
10
11
20
21

gives you the 6 factors.


//Try this,it can find divisors of verrrrrrrrrry big numbers (pretty efficiently :-))
#include<iostream>
#include<cstdio>
#include<cmath>
#include<vector>
#include<conio.h>

using namespace std;

vector<double> D;

void divs(double N);
double mod(double &n1, double &n2);
void push(double N);
void show();

int main()
{
    double N; 
    cout << "\n Enter number: "; cin >> N;

    divs(N); // find and push divisors to D

    cout << "\n Divisors of "<<N<<": "; show(); // show contents of D (all divisors of N)

_getch(); // used visual studio, if it isn't supported replace it by "getch();"
return(0);
}

void divs(double N)
{
    for (double i = 1; i <= sqrt(N); ++i)
    {
        if (!mod(N, i)) { push(i); if(i*i!=N) push(N / i); }
    }
}

double mod(double &n1, double &n2)
{
    return(((n1/n2)-floor(n1/n2))*n2);
}

void push(double N)
{
    double s = 1, e = D.size(), m = floor((s + e) / 2);
    while (s <= e)
    {   
        if (N==D[m-1]) { return; }
        else if (N > D[m-1]) { s = m + 1; }
        else { e = m - 1; }
        m = floor((s + e) / 2);
    }
    D.insert(D.begin() + m, N);
}

void show()
{
    for (double i = 0; i < D.size(); ++i) cout << D[i] << " ";
}

#include<bits/stdc++.h> 
using namespace std;
typedef long long int ll;
#define MOD 1000000007
#define fo(i,k,n) for(int i=k;i<=n;++i)
#define endl '\n'
ll etf[1000001];
ll spf[1000001];
void sieve(){
    ll i,j;
    for(i=0;i<=1000000;i++) {etf[i]=i;spf[i]=i;}
    for(i=2;i<=1000000;i++){
        if(etf[i]==i){
            for(j=i;j<=1000000;j+=i){
                etf[j]/=i;
                etf[j]*=(i-1);
                if(spf[j]==j)spf[j]=i;
            }
        }
    }
}
void primefacto(ll n,vector<pair<ll,ll>>& vec){
    ll lastprime = 1,k=0;
    while(n>1){
        if(lastprime!=spf[n])vec.push_back(make_pair(spf[n],0));
        vec[vec.size()-1].second++;
        lastprime=spf[n];
        n/=spf[n];
    }
}
void divisors(vector<pair<ll,ll>>& vec,ll idx,vector<ll>& divs,ll num){
    if(idx==vec.size()){
        divs.push_back(num);
        return;
    }
    for(ll i=0;i<=vec[idx].second;i++){
        divisors(vec,idx+1,divs,num*pow(vec[idx].first,i));
    }
}
void solve(){
    ll n;
    cin>>n;
    vector<pair<ll,ll>> vec;
    primefacto(n,vec);
    vector<ll> divs;
    divisors(vec,0,divs,1);
    for(auto it=divs.begin();it!=divs.end();it++){
        cout<<*it<<endl;
    }
}
int main(){
    ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);
    cin.tie(0);cout.tie(0);
    sieve();
    ll t;cin>>t;
    while(t--) solve();
    return 0;
}

//DIVISORS IN TIME COMPLEXITY sqrt(n)

#include<bits/stdc++.h>
using namespace std;

#define ll long long

int main()
{
    ll int n;
    cin >> n;

    for(ll i = 2;  i <= sqrt(n); i++)
    {
        if (n%i==0)
        {
            if (n/i!=i)
                cout << i << endl << n/i<< endl;
            else
                cout << i << endl;
        }
    }
}

int result_num;
bool flag;

cout << "Number          Divisors\n";

for (int number = 1; number <= 35; number++)
{
    flag = false;
    cout << setw(3) << number << setw(14);

    for (int i = 1; i <= number; i++) 
    {
        result_num = number % i;

        if (result_num == 0 && flag == true)
        {
            cout << "," << i;
        }

        if (result_num == 0 && flag == false)
        {
            cout << i;
        }

        flag = true;
    }

    cout << endl;   
}
cout << "Press enter to continue.....";
cin.ignore();
return 0;
}

for (int i = 1; i*i <= num; ++i)
{
    if (num % i == 0)
    cout << i << endl;
    if (num/i!=i)
    cout << num/i << endl;
}

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