Factoring can refer to the following: *

Factoring (finance) Factoring is a financial transaction and a type of debtor finance in which a business ''sells'' its accounts receivable (i.e., invoices) to a third party (called a factor (agent), factor) at a discounting, discount.O. Ray Whittington, CPA, PhD, " ...

, a form of commercial finance *

Factorization In mathematics, factorization (or factorisation, see American and British English spelling differences#-ise, -ize (-isation, -ization), English spelling differences) or factoring consists of writing a number or another mathematical object as a p ...

, the mathematical concept of splitting an object into multiple parts multiplied together *

Integer factorization In mathematics, integer factorization is the decomposition of a positive integer into a product of integers. Every positive integer greater than 1 is either the product of two or more integer factors greater than 1, in which case it is a comp ...

, splitting a whole number into the product of smaller whole numbers * Decomposition (computer science) * A rule in resolution theorem proving, see Resolution (logic)#Factoring

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