the words are used synonymously in practice, but i think there's an opportunity to distinguish them usefully. suggestion: - 'factoring' is a multiplicative br

the words are used synonymously in practice, but i think there's an opportunity to distinguish them usefully. suggestion: - 'factoring' is a multiplicative breakdown, a 'composition', like prime factorization. - 'decomposition' could also be called 'partition', and is an additive breakdown, like how 3 could be split into 2 + 1