Corrected entry: Leaven says factorizing numbers to see if they're powers of a prime would be astronomical. Someone at the V.O.X. (CUBE message board of the official site) rightly mentioned that there are only 24 powers of a prime between 1 and 999, which are not prime numbers. Leaven is able to identify the latter and it would have been no real problem for the group to calculate the other 24 and remember them. It is not astronomical.
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Correction: It may not be astronomical, but to Leaven it may seem to be at that point. As she says, she has been working for hours. She probably cannot think straight, and at the spur of the moment blurted it out. Don't forget that Quentin is always questioning Leaven and shouting at her, making it even harder for her to work. Another point is that Leaven is not supposed to work the powers out, beacuse this is the point when Kazan is introduced as a mathmatical genius.
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