Every composite number can be expressed (factorised) as a product of primes, and this factorisation is unique apart from the order in which the primes appear. E.g. . This uniqueness is used to prove irrationality results and to compute HCF/LCM.
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Class 10 · Mathematics (Standard) · Unit 1: Real Numbers
Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic
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