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Factors are either composite numbers or prime numbers.
A prime number has only two factors, one and itself, so it cannot be divided evenly by any other numbers. Here's a list of prime numbers up to 100. You can see that none of these numbers can be factored any further. 47,53,59,61,67,71,73,79,83,89,97 A composite number is any number that has more than two factors. Here's a list of composite numbers up to 20.