In mathematics, to factor a number or algebraic expression is to find parts whose product is the original number or expression. For instance, 12 can be factored into the product 6 x 2, or 3 x 4. The expression (x2 - 4) can be factored into the product...

Factors can be thought of as the multiplying building blocks for integers. A factor is an integer that divides another integer without leaving a remainder. In general, an integer x is a factor of the integer y if is also an integer. Because 8 divides...

In general, factorization refers to the division of large sequences into partial sequences. In transformational grammar, factorization refers to the division of the end nodes in a tree diagram with regard to the use of transformational rules. If the...

The sale at a discount of debts due to a firm. The factor purchasing these rights is entitled to collect the amount due. Factoring can be used to increase the short-term funds available to a business enterprise or to finance exporting. See also: bill...

In mathematics, factorization (British English: also factorisation) or factoring is the decomposition of an object (for example, a number, a polynomial, or a matrix) into a product of other objects, or factors, which when multiplied together give the...

People around City Hall have said for a while that Mike would prefer Chris Quinn as Speaker to Bill de Blasio. And here's a tidbit in support of that thesis: Quinn retained as a consultant on her run Josh Isay, the same ex-Schumer aide who...

reputation explains why Menendez is the first Hudson machine product nominated for statewide office in decades. But Hudson and two other machine counties - Essex (Newark and environs) and Camden - will play no small role in what looks increasingly like a Menendez victory over...

As a not-so-newly divorced woman with an eight-and-a-half-year-old daughter, I have lately developed a habit of grilling married couples with the same intensity and awed fascination that I imagine Charles Darwin felt for his Galapagoan critters: What magical beasts are these, and how did they...

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y.-Jeanine Pirro's choice may not make for a best-selling book-as Hillary's Choice did in 2000-but on the summer stage of New York politics, she's playing the role of Hamlet.The Westchester District Attorney is choosing between a tough campaign for the job of State...