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They're just different words for the same thing.

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12y ago

They're different words for the same thing. When you're multiplying, you call them factors. When you're dividing, you call them divisors.

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14y ago

no cause the factor game is way different then a divisor game

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12y ago

A set of common factors can contain both prime and composite numbers. Common prime factors are merely common factors that happen to be prime.

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12y ago

They're essentially the same thing. Factors multiply with each other to create a number, divisors go into a number evenly.

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12y ago

When you're dividing, you call them divisors and when you're multiplying you call them factors, but they're just different words for the same thing.

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9y ago

No difference. We frequently use factor when we multiply and divisor when we divide, but they're essentially the same thing.

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9y ago

Yes, that is correct.

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12y ago

Yes.

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