Who first discovered factoring and when?

[Cedar]

Anybody know who first discovered the factoring?
When and where too...
Such an useful technique I would like to know :)

 

[quasar987]

Actually factoring was discovered in 1942 following a France-Japan-GB colaboration to crack the secret of multiplication.

Probably it was the first society to worked with the concept of multiplication.

 

[arildno]

Factoring was discovered the moment a guy understood that if a*(b+c)=a*b+a*c, then we could equally write a*(b+c) whenever the other guys would write a*b+a*c.

Who that was, I have no idea..

 

[Office_Shredder]

I think he means like x² - 2x + 1 = (x-1)(x-1)

Which isn't directly obvious from a*(b+c) = ab + ac

 

[radou]

I think he means like x² - 2x + 1 = (x-1)(x-1)

Which isn't directly obvious from a*(b+c) = ab + ac

Not directly, but very close to directly.