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Cubic hypersurfaces of complex projective space

Given the equation of a cubic hypersurface $C\subset\mathbb{P}^{N}_{\mathbb{C}}$ ($N\geq 4$), there is an algorithm (or better a software) that allows to determine if $C$ is factorial, and if $\mathrm{Pic}(C)=\mathbb{Z}\langle\mathcal{O}_C(1)\rangle$ ? Of course this is trivial if $C$ is smooth.

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