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Prime factorisation
Prime factorisation is the activity of expressing a composite number as the unique product of prime numbers. There are two main approaches to this:
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- factor* trees
- repeated division by two
Factor trees: we take a number
nand break it down into two factors ofn. We then repeat this process with the resulting factors working recursively until the numbers we are left with are primes.
The
prime factors of 27 are 2, 3, 3
it doesn't matter which products we choose as the interim factors, we should
always reach the same outcome:
