In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
A sufficiently advanced quantum computer would break current encryption methods byfactorizinglarge numbers several orders of magnitude faster than any existing classical computer.
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These numbers are not needed for the algebraic purpose offactorizingpolynomials (but they are necessary for the use of real numbers in analysis).
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