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Install dependencies:

  cabal install arithmoi
  cabal install diagrams
Copy all the code from the blog post into a file (let's call it factor.hs). At the end of that file, add:

  main = defaultMain $ factorDiagram YOUR_NUMBER
Then run:

  runhaskell factor.hs -o image.png -w 400


By the way, here are the first 2263 diagrams: http://jumpshare.com/v/R7nRxZ?b=27itKy. It's a renamed bzipped tar. Extract with:

  tar xjf factors.mp3
It extracts to a directory named 'factors' to about 30 mb total.


I like how you have to pretend you're sharing music when you just want to show the Internet the output of your mathematical computations. What a world.




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