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Another legitimate meaning might be "factoring probable primes" (or "candidate primes" as they are sometimes called in key generation/cryptanalysis), or possibl
by Karellen 4y ago
Another legitimate meaning might be "factoring probable primes" (or "candidate primes" as they are sometimes called in key generation/cryptanalysis), or possibly "factoring semiprimes".
Both of those phrases could be referred to as "prime factorisation" in a not-entirely-accurate-but-unambiguous-in-context shorthand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probable_prime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Probable_prime
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiprime https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semiprime