What is "prime factors"

Usage examples of "prime factors".

For example, the parallel processing provided by qubits can be used to decompose numbers into their prime factors.

But Milly had, proceeding from prime factors of an array of numbers, then to a picture, then to an interpretation.

But to decompose such a number into its prime factors is a notoriously difficult and tedious problem.

You have to be able to figure out the prime factors of the key number to crack the code, and with 512-bit encryption, like our system here uses, it would take conventional computers millennia to try all the possible factors.

Davids previous contributions to the world of Star Trek include a Voyager episode, Prime Factors, and a Deep Space Nine novel, The 34th Rule.

Heaven and hell may be the prime factors of zeal in the religion of a fanatic.

Strong and skillful hands, axes and a crosscut saw, had been the prime factors in erecting this habitation of the Isbels.