How are factors related to prime numbers

To find out if a number is prime, it can only have two factors, 1 and itself.

Once you divide a number up into prime factors, all of the number's factors are simply all combinations of these prime factors.

For example: the prime factors of 20 are 22 x 51 . The exponent 1 is normally not written;

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