Problem 3: Largest prime factor - Test won't pass

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Tell us what’s happening:

Hi, I think that there may be a problem with the tests for this challenge. The test fails saying:

largestPrimeFactor(600851475143) should return 6857.

However, when i run my code in the console then I do get 6857 as my answer. Please could you check that the tests are running correctly?

Thanks!

Your code so far


function largestPrimeFactor(number) {
  if(isPrime(number)) return number;
  for(let i = Math.floor(Math.sqrt(number)); i >= 2; i--) {
    if(isPrime(i) && number % i === 0) return i;
  }
  return 2;
}

function isPrime(n) {
  if(n < 2) return false
  for(let i = 2; i <= Math.floor(Math.sqrt(n)); i++) {
    if(n % i === 0) return false;
  }
  return true;
}

largestPrimeFactor(13195);

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/71.0.3578.98 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://learn.freecodecamp.org/coding-interview-prep/project-euler/problem-3-largest-prime-factor/

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You are probably triggering the infinite loop protection

To check for that you can add a console.log() to check what the value of a variable is before being returned, open the browser console, clean it and run the tests.