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How do you factor $x^10 - y^2$ ?

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Jun 4, 2015

$x^10 - y^2 = (x^5)^2 -y^2$

and therefore is the difference of squares with factors
$color(white)("XXXX")$ $=(x^5-y)(x^5+y)$

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