factorization
English
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Alternative forms
[edit]- (mainly British): factorisation
Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]factorization (countable and uncountable, plural factorizations)
- (mathematics) The process of creating a list of factors.
- 2013 October 23, Tina Rosenberg, “In ‘Flipped’ Classrooms, a Method for Mastery”, in The New York Times[1]:
- A fifth-grade class will spend a set number of days on prime factorization and then move on to study greatest common factors — whether or not every student is ready.
- (mathematics) An expression listing items that, when multiplied together, will produce a desired quantity.
- A list of factors.
- 1991, Paulo Ribenboim, The Little Book of Big Primes[2], page 172:
- Actual factorizations are now known for every p ≤ 89.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]creating a list of factors
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expression listing factors
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list of factors
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