COMMUNICATIONS IN ALGEBRA, cilt.40, sa.11, ss.4089-4099, 2012 (SCI-Expanded)
Let R be a commutative ring with identity. R is a finite factorization ring (FFR) if every nonzero nonunit of R has only a finite number of factorizations up to order and associates. In this article, we give a characterization of R for R[X] and R[[X]] to be an FFR.