Mathematics-Online lexicon: Prime Factorization

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	Prime Factorization

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Every natural number $n \geq 2$ can be decomposed into its prime factors:

$\displaystyle n = \prod_{i=1}^k p_i^{m_i} \,,$

with $p_i \neq p_j$ for $i \neq j$ . This factorization is unique, except for the order in which the factors appear.

(Authors: Kimmerle/Abele)

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automatically generated 6/11/2007