@futurebird
When the Pilot ACE was demonstrated to the press, they loaded their prime factorisation programme into the mercury delay-line memory and asked the press for a six-digit number to test if it was prime.
The first reporter, put on the spot, called out something repeating like "123123!"
The researcher scowled and said "well, that has an obvious factor of 1001 just to start..." before entering it into the machine. The press ran with headlines like "WRANGLER FASTER THAN ELECTRONIC BRAIN"
@ainmosni