Prime factorization can be used to find many things. it's about breaking things down.. going back to the basics.
it's used for things like finding lcm, gcd, ... exponential form, # of divisors, product of divisors... & to simplify fractions, etc.
cryptography is used to break down & decipher codes. prime factorization is used to break down numbers.... sounds similar right? well i'm sure, in some strange way, it is used in cryptography. we'll probably learn how to do that in the 2nd semester.
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