prime factor

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   the prime factors of a quantity are all of the prime quantities that will exactly divide the given quantity

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Questions about prime factor

What does prime factor mean?

prime factor means "the prime factors of a quantity are all of the prime quantities that will exactly divide the given quantity".

Is prime factor a common word?

prime factor is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.