Cofactor

Cofactor may also refer to:

  • Cofactor (biochemistry), a substance that needs to be present in addition to an enzyme for a certain reaction to be catalysed
  • A domain parameter in elliptic curve cryptography, defined as the ratio between the order of a group and that of the subgroup
  • Cofactor (linear algebra), the signed minor of a matrix
  • Minor (linear algebra), an alternative name for the determinant of a smaller matrix than that which it describes
  • Shannon cofactor, a term in Boole's (or Shannon's) expansion of a Boolean function

See also

  • Factor (disambiguation)
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