{"id":227,"date":"2001-12-20T12:37:39","date_gmt":"2001-12-20T20:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2001\/12\/20\/227.html"},"modified":"2001-12-20T12:37:39","modified_gmt":"2001-12-20T20:37:39","slug":"ibm-finds-prime-factors-of-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2001\/12\/20\/ibm-finds-prime-factors-of-15\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM finds prime factors of 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/dailynews.yahoo.com\/h\/nm\/20011219\/tc\/tech_ibm_quantum_dc_1.html\">a Reuters article<\/a>, researchers at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) have developed an advanced computer which has found the prime factors of the number 15.  IBM claims that these factors are the numbers 3 and 5.  No other computer this advanced has been built, so no one else can check IBM's work.<\/p>\n<p>As noted in the article, \"Previously the largest computer IBM had built was based on five atoms.\"<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(I wonder if I should put the word \"joke\" at the top of entries that are intended to be funny.  Experience has shown that my attempts at deadpan humor are often taken seriously.)<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a Reuters article, researchers at International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) have developed an advanced computer which has found&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}