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🌳 Prime Factor Tree Lab

Keep Splitting a Number,
and Only Primes Remain

Keep splitting a number into a product of two factors. However you split it, once only unsplittable primes remain, the result is always the same.

Prime factorization means writing a number as a product of primes (numbers divisible only by 1 and themselves). In the tree diagram, multiplying the two numbers at any branch together always gives back the number above it — and multiplying just the bottom leaves (the primes) together gives back the original number too.

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Prime factorization
However you split it, the leaves (primes) always end up the same in both kind and count — this is called the "uniqueness of prime factorization."