
"Divisors" vs "factors" - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Nov 1, 2020 · Is there a difference between divisors and factors? Are they the same or are there differences? Example: Find the factors and divisors of 18. What I have found is answers that …
How many positive integers are factors of a given number?
Feb 5, 2013 · Given a number, how many positive integers are factors of this number. In practice, you could simply build a table as such (lets assume the number is 36): 1 | 36 2 | 18 3 | 12 4 | 9 6 | 6 Thus …
How to determine the smallest numbers with $n$ factors
Oct 23, 2017 · In this case, we want to create the lowest numbers with 12 factors, so we can use the first prime numbers $2$, $3$, and $5$, and arrange them in such a way that we get the smallest value, …
Which positive whole number below 100 has the most number of …
Jan 27, 2021 · 4 This question adresses the question about a mathematical function which outputs the number of factors. The numbers under 100 with most factors are $60=2^2\cdot3\cdot5$, …
Sum of all the factors of $33333333$ - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Jun 9, 2022 · 5 What is the sum of factors of factors of $33333333$ (that's $3$ eight times)? Here's how I tried to attempt this question yet failed: Factors of …
Finding sum of factors of a number using prime factorization
It's factors are $1, 5, 7, 25, 35, 49, 175, 245, 1225 $ and the sum of factors are $1767$. A simple algorithm that is described to find the sum of the factors is using prime factorization.
Number of ways in which $38808$ can be expressed as a product of 2 ...
The number of ways in which a composite number N can be resolved into two factors which are relatively co-prime to each other is equal to 2^ (n-1) . Where n is the number of different factors of N.
terminology - Is there a name for a number's factors, but not including ...
Mar 11, 2025 · All natural numbers have an associated list of factors. (For example, 12's is 1,2,3,4,6 and 12.) I'm looking to talk about a number's factors, but not including itself and 1. Does that have a less …
Negative factors of a number - Mathematics Stack Exchange
May 28, 2013 · For the reason that you mentioned, factors are often assumed to be positive, unless otherwise stated. $-5$ is a (negative) factor of both 25 and $-25$.
How to get all the factors of a number using its prime factorization ...
May 16, 2018 · By way of example of a table of factors, just to check we're talking about the same thing: The factors of $8=2^3$ are of course just $2^0, 2^1, 2^2, 2^3$ or calculated out $1,2,4,8$.