Tuesday, January 29, 2019

terminology - What the technical term for factors of a number (via summation)?


I know that 5 and 3 are factors of 15. Here factors are numbers whose multiplication gives 15.


What is the technical term for numbers whose sum (and not multiplication) is a given value?


i.e. technical term for following numbers


14 - 1 (sum is 15)



11 - 2 - 2 (sum is 15)


1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 .. 15times (sum is 15)


Answer



These are called the partitions of a number.


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