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What is the difference between factors of a number and prime factors of a number?
All numbers have factors. Some factors are prime numbers. These are known as prime factors. The set of prime factors is a subset of the set of factors for any given number.
What number has five different prime factors?
Since there are an infinite number of prime numbers, there are infinite numbers with any given number of prime factors.
Why is the set of factor of a number not the same as the set of proper factors of that number?
Depending on your definition of proper factors, the set of proper factor factors either doesn't include 1 and/or the number itself for a given number.
What are common factors in mathematics?
A factor is a number or quantity that when multiplied with another produces a given number or expression. Common factors are factors that two or more numbers have in common.
Why do some of the factor rainbows have an even number of factors and some have an odd number of factors?
Factor rainbows display the prime factors of a given number. Some numbers, Like 27, have an odd number of prime factors. Some numbers, like 81, have an even number of prime factors.
