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VECTOR CALCULUS
  Factor(expression)
Returns the factored form of a polynomial. It does the reverse of what Expand does, but limited to polynomials.

For polynomials of degree > 2 this function makes use of pSolve. If pSolve can find real roots, then Factor can return a factored form of the given function.


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References
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PolynomialFactorization.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorization

Related Functions
Expand, Apart, Together, pSolve, SimplifyPoly, TrigExpand, TrigReduce, TrigCollect





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