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The smallest factor of a number is?
1
What number is the smallest factor of any number?
One
What is the smallest factor of a number?
The smallest positive factor of any positive integer is the number 1. If negative factors are allowed, the smallest factor is the negative of the absolute value of any integer.
What is the smallest numerical factor that any number can have?
One.
What is the least positive integer that has exactly 13 factors?
4096 is the smallest number with exactly 13 factors. (Including 1 and itself as factors).192 is the smallest number with exactly 13 properfactors, (excluding the number itself).120 is the smallest number with at least 13 factors (it has 16 factors)To find the smallest number with exactly N factors (for example, N=12):Factor N into primes, (for example, 12= 2*2*3Subtract 1 from each of the prime factors (for example, 1,1,2)Sort them by largest first (for example, 2,1,1)Raise successive prime numbers to these powers (for example, 2^2,3^1,5^1)Multiply these together (for example: 4*3*5 = 60; 60 is the smallest number with exactly 12 factors).
