Remove some completely redundant code in factorize()

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/doc/examples/factor.cpp b/doc/examples/factor.cpp
index b7b116159..b8e02e19f 100644
--- a/doc/examples/factor.cpp
+++ b/doc/examples/factor.cpp
@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@ BigInt rho(const BigInt& n)
    return 0;
    }
 
+// Remove (and return) any small (< 2^16) factors
 std::vector<BigInt> remove_small_factors(BigInt& n)
    {
    std::vector<BigInt> factors;
@@ -86,12 +87,6 @@ std::vector<BigInt> factorize(const BigInt& n_in)
    BigInt n = n_in;
    std::vector<BigInt> factors = remove_small_factors(n);
 
-   if(is_prime(n))
-      {
-      factors.push_back(n);
-      return factors;
-      }
-
    while(n != 1)
       {
       if(is_prime(n))