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Revision as of 14:54, 19 June 2006
By the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic, every positive integer has a unique prime factorization. What is a prime factorization? It is a representation of a number in terms of powers of primes (it is of the form 
, where n is any natural number).
Prime factorizations are important in many ways, for instance to simplify fractions.
