Calculate the Greatest Common Factor or GCF of 65536
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The instructions to find the GCF of 65536 are the next:
1. Decompose all numbers into prime factors
65536 | 2 |
32768 | 2 |
16384 | 2 |
8192 | 2 |
4096 | 2 |
2048 | 2 |
1024 | 2 |
512 | 2 |
256 | 2 |
128 | 2 |
64 | 2 |
32 | 2 |
16 | 2 |
8 | 2 |
4 | 2 |
2 | 2 |
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2. Write all numbers as the product of its prime factors
Prime factors of 65536 | = | 216 |
3. Choose the common prime factors with the lowest exponent
Common prime factors: 2
Common prime factors with the lowest exponent: 216
4. Calculate the Greatest Common Factor or GCF
Remember, to find the GCF of several numbers you must multiply the common prime factors with the lowest exponent.
GCF = 216 = 65536
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