Talk:Factors of an integer: Difference between revisions

:The task specification needs to be tightened up, so following what was given would most likely fit what was envisaged, but I should have flaagged for clarification. --[[User:Paddy3118|Paddy3118]] 03:19, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

:: If 1 is deemed to be a factor of 42, then so must 42 be; [[wp:Divisor|Wikipedia]] agrees with me. I've never heard of anyone defining factors for anything other than positive integers and in terms of positive integers; if I remember my schooling, it's usually a lead-in to talking about prime numbers. The wikipedia article also talks about "proper divisors", which is what the examples here were originally delivering, but that's probably not the best way to fix this task. --[[User:Dkf|Donal Fellows]]