When just two years old, he wrote numbers up to millions, and when taken to church he amused himself by factorising the numbers of the hymns. |
Colburn is also interesting in that he was able to give an idea of how he carried out the calculations, the main method being by factorising the numbers concerned. |
This gave a method of factorising a number using cards with holes punched in them. |
I have conquered the simultaneous equation, and emerged victorious from the forests of factorising. |