It would depend on what the original number was. Say, it was 10, the factors of 10 would be 1, 2, 5, and 10. This is because 10 divided by any of those numbers would result in an integer (...-3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3...) with no remainders.
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The exponent tells how many times the base is used as a factor.
Exponent
The exponent is the small raised number (the superscript) that tells how many times a factor is used.
Numbers with exponents are sometimes referred to as a power. For example, x^4 can be called "x to the fourth power" which means that x is used as a factor four times. So, in a power, the number used as a factor is the base.
The base.