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factoring

[ fak-ter-ing ]

noun

  1. Commerce. the business of purchasing and collecting accounts receivable or of advancing cash on the basis of accounts receivable.
  2. the act or process of separating an equation, formula, cryptogram, etc., into its component parts.


factoring

/ ˈfæktərɪŋ /

noun

  1. the business of a factor
  2. the business of purchasing debts from clients at a discount and making a profit from their collection
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Factoring is a hard problem because all current methods seek the answer via “brute force,” checking the astronomical number of possibilities one by one by one.

Those miserable results and the factoring in of known unknowns might explain advertisers’ resistance to buying into the Big Buy.

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Back when Roman Polanski won for The Pianist, did you feel the same way about not factoring in sexual matters?

Like it or not, though, race is sure to keep factoring into the discussion.

Synagogues were counted by factoring both the number in that same ASARB report and also the number listed on Citysearch.com.

Factoring in time for edits, that gave him only three months.

Ties were broken by The Daily Beast factoring in the overall size of the industry.

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