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To: patton
I hate to break it to ya, but one is not a prime number.

Uh... Whut?

39 posted on 11/23/2013 7:04:46 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: Ramius

“A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that has no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. “

“The fundamental theorem of arithmetic establishes the central role of primes in number theory: any integer greater than 1 can be expressed as a product of primes that is unique up to ordering. The uniqueness in this theorem requires excluding 1 as a prime because one can include arbitrarily many instances of 1 in any factorization, e.g., 3, 1 × 3, 1 × 1 × 3, etc. are all valid factorizations of 3.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number#Definition_and_examples


46 posted on 11/23/2013 7:22:56 PM PST by patton (“Really? Have you tried chewing cloves?”)
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