HOW TO SAVE TIME WHEN TRYING TO FIND OUT IF A NUMBER IS PRIME OR NOT
a) If we do it manually dividing with high prime numbers, we will stop every time the quotient is smaller than the denominator.
Example:
3.38 We will break down the number 3054 into its prime factors:
Since I see that 509 is not divisible by 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, I try to divide it by 13, 17, 19, 23: 
In each division above, we can see that the quotient is always higher than the denominator. In this case, we have to keep trying with even higher prime numbers as denominators until the quotient is lower than the number in this place. If the remainder is not zero, we can well say that the number we have in the dividend is a prime number.
We can see that the quotient 22 is lower than the denominator 23 and that the remainder is different from zero. We can say that 509 is a prime number.
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