Asked • 04/24/19

Negative factors of a number?

Can a factor of a number be negative? Is -5 a factor of 25 or -25? A number is said to be prime if it has two factors : 1 and the number itself. So if -5 can be a factor of 5, how to define the prime numbers? Thanks.

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