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Factors for Decimal numbers?

by mathewmithun » Tue May 29, 2012 1:54 am
Can we factorize decimal numbers?
Eg: what are the factors of 1.5? I would start the question by writing 1.5 as 15/10. factors of 15=1,3,5,15 and factors of 10=1,2,5,10. How to proceed now? I know this might be a very silly question, but I just could not push it aside...
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by Anurag@Gurome » Tue May 29, 2012 8:51 am
mathewmithun wrote:Can we factorize decimal numbers?
For the sake of 'factorization', we can do so.
But it has no practical point as any fraction(or decimal) can be a factor of any other factor(or decimal).

This is because we can express any fraction as the product of any other two or more fractions.
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by mathewmithun » Tue May 29, 2012 9:29 am
Anurag@Gurome wrote:
mathewmithun wrote:Can we factorize decimal numbers?
For the sake of 'factorization', we can do so.
But it has no practical point as any fraction(or decimal) can be a factor of any other factor(or decimal).

This is because we can express any fraction as the product of any other two or more fractions.
thank you Anurag...
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