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'''[[Fermat]]'s [[Integer factorization|factorization]] method''', named after [[Pierre de Fermat]], is based on the representation of an [[even and odd numbers|odd]] [[integer]] as the [[difference of two squares]]:
:<math>N = a^2 - b^2.</math>