# Factorization with Symbolics package

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/factorization-with-symbolics-package/101773>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** symbolics\
**Created:** [July 19, 2023, 8:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/factorization-with-symbolics-package/101773 "2023-07-19T08:26:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![Alf](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/alf/32/51653_2.png) [@Alf](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Alf)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2023, 8:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/factorization-with-symbolics-package/101773/1 "2023-07-19T08:26:23Z")

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I am starting to use the Julia package [Symbolics](https://juliasymbolics.org/) for symbolic Maths but I can not figure out how to factorize a polynomial.

I want to get the same as with SymPy.

```julia
using SymPy
@vars x
factor(x^2 + 2x + 1)

```

that returns

```sh
       2
(x + 1) 

```