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What does factorise mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word factorise? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (mathematics) To create a list of the factors of.
  2. (mathematics) To divide an expression into a listing of items that, when multiplied together, will produce the original quantity.
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The biggest and most important one is the ability to factorise a very large number into two prime numbers.
In August 1999 a large team of mathematicians took over 35 computing years to factorise a 155 digit number.
One way to mitigate this is to factorise individual lines, each of which contains the nine digits unrepeated.

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