Efficiently getting all divisors of a given number

You should really check till square root of num as sqrt(num) * sqrt(num) = num:

Something on these lines:

int square_root = (int) sqrt(num) + 1;
for (int i = 1; i < square_root; i++) { 
    if (num % i == 0&&i*i!=num)
        cout << i << num/i << endl;
    if (num % i == 0&&i*i==num)
        cout << i << '\n';
}

Factors are paired. 1 and 24, 2 and 12, 3 and 8, 4 and 6.

An improvement of your algorithm could be to iterate to the square root of num instead of all the way to num, and then calculate the paired factors using num / i.


There is no efficient way in the sense of algorithmic complexity (an algorithm with polynomial complexity) known in science by now. So iterating until the square root as already suggested is mostly as good as you can be.

Mainly because of this, a large part of the currently used cryptography is based on the assumption that it is very time consuming to compute a prime factorization of any given integer.