The prime factors of a squared number are the prime factors, if any, of its square root.
Any prime number has two factors: 1 and the number itself.
A number is prime when it only has one and itself as factors is prime. Therefore, to tell if a number is prime simply find it's factors. If it has more than two factors than it is not a prime number.
Sum of the digits of 87 = 8+7 =15(a multiple of 3) which means that 87 is divisible by 3. Therefore, 87 is not a prime number as it has more than two factors which are 1, 87, 3 etc. In order to prove that a given number is prime we shall show that the given number has more than two factors. There is no need to find all the factors.
The prime factors of 24 are 2 and 3.
Once all the prime factors of a number have been found, the number of factors the number has and what they are can be found. I'd be finding the prime factors first before finding all the factors of a number, so I'd rather find all the prime factors as it means I can stop before I have to do more work in finding all the factors.
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Prime factorization is when you find all the prime factors of a number.
A prime number is any number that only has one and itself as factors. Therefore, to tell if a number is prime simply find it's factors. If it has more than two factors than it is not a prime number.
A prime number is any number that only has one and itself as factors. Therefore, to tell if a number is prime simply find it's factors. If it has more than two factors than it is not a prime number.
A prime number is any number that only has one and itself as factors. Therefore, to tell if a number is prime simply find it's factors. If it has more than two factors than it is not a prime number.
Numbers never end. Thus it is impossible to find the largest prime number. The largest known prime number as of 2003 is m39 = 213,466,917-1 It has 4,053,946 digits and does not fit in this box.