Hamming Numbers are numbers whose only prime factors are 2, 3 and 5. They are named after Richard Hamming but became famous (or notorious) after Edsger Dijkstra posed the question of how to efficiently enumerate them in numeric order.
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algorithm optimization hamming-numbers smooth-numbersNumbers whose only prime factors are 2, 3, or 5 are called ugly numbers. Example: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 15, ... 1 can be considered as 2^0. I am working on …
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