Note on Prime Factorization Calculator

Introduction to prime factorization calculator

Dear readers let me help you on prime factorization calculator.A prime number is a natural number that can be only divided by 2 numbers: 1 and itself. For example 1, 3, 5, 11, 13, 17 etc. Numbers that are divisible by other numbers are no prime numbers such as 4 (4=2*2), 6 (6=2*3), and 4 (8=2*4).

A prime factor is a prime number by which a given number is divisible. For example the prime factors of 6 are 2 and 3. Prime factorization is the process of finding a list of prime factors for a number.To write in short each factor which is repeated can be written in exponent form

Example:

Prime factorization of a few numbers is shown below: This will also help us on interval notation

24 =2 x 2 x 2 x 3= 23 x 3

72= 2 x 2 x 2 x 3 x 3 = 23 x 32

98=2 x 7 x 7= 2 x 72

A prime factorization calculator is a calculator which takes a number as an input and gives the list of prime factorization as its output.

There are various methods of finding prime factorization manually. The most commonly used are;Short Division Method and Factoral trees method.