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took the first step on the way to the existence of prime factorization, Kamal al-Din al-Farisi took the final step and stated for the first time the fundamental theorem of arithmetic.

Article 16 of Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae seems to be the first proof of the uniqueness part of the theorem.

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Canonical representation of a positive integer

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