Factoring: A method of financing accounts receivable. A firm sells its accounts to a financial institution, which serves as the factor. The receivables are then sold. If accounts prove ...

A method is given for converting any procedure that finds roots into one which finds arbitrary factors. Thus the rational root test gives rise to an effective procedure for factoring polynomials over ...

Entirely new theoretical method for factoring numbers using quantum simulation could lead to a theory of numbers that is based on physical quantum systems ...

L. L. Thurstone, Graphical Method of Factoring the Correlation Matrix, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 30, No. 6 (Jun. 15, 1944), pp. 129-134 ...