Highest prime factor help.

JavaScript
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  **Your code so far**


function largestPrimeFactor(number) {
function isPrime(i){
  if ((i%2==0)||(i%3==0)||(i%5==0)||(i%7==0)){
    return false;
  }
  else{return true;}
};
for (let x=number; x>0; x--){
if (number%x==0){
  if (isPrime(x)){
    return x;
  }
}
}
return x;;

}



largestPrimeFactor(13195);

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Challenge: Problem 3: Largest prime factor

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Could you explain how you believe your prime checking function works? I don’t think that you quite understand primality.

Also, I would encourage you to format your code so that it is easier to read.

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