FACTORS
, in Multiplication, in Arithmetic, a name given to the two numbers that are multiplied together, viz, the multiplicand and multiplier; so called because they are to facere productum, make or constitute the factum or product.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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