# Create a method to find the factors of any real number?

#### no name

create a method to find the factors of any real number ? and then use it to find the factors of 45000 ???

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#### BicycleTree

Answer:You cannot factor every real number. You can only factor integers.

#### no name

ok .... i am sorry .... i meant integers

#### Galileo

Homework Helper
Just reduce it step by step: 45000=(45)(1000)=(5)(9)(10)(10)(10)=(2^3)(3^2)(5^4)

#### SGT

What I learned in elementary school is to divide successively by all primes until you get 1 in the quotient.
45000 / 2
22500 / 2
11250 / 2
5625 / 3
1875 / 3
625 / 5
125 / 5
25 / 5
5 / 5
1
$$45000 =2^3*3^2*5^4$$

#### Gale

elaborating on SGT's and Galileo's, all the factors of 4500 are any combinations of their prime factorizations. maybe you got that.. but some kids don't...

at any rate, this sounds more like a homework problem than a teaser...

#### TenaliRaman

Factorise 9875635421
I dare ya!!

[think]my homework will be finished soon![/think]

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