Suspect" (2005) of the television crime drama NUMB3RS, (much) more traditional positive integers. In the novel TheĬurious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Haddon 2003), the protagonistĬhristopher amusingly numbers the chapters using the prime numbers instead of the "In the early morning, astronomers spiritualized nonmathematicians" (G. L. Honaker, Mnemonic for remembering the first seven primes is, The th prime number is commonly denoted, so, , and so on,Īnd may be computed in the Wolfram Language Note also that while 2 is considered a prime today, at one time it was not (Tietze Primes excluding 2 is therefore called the " odd primes." It the "oddest" prime), it is also somewhat special, and the set of all However, since 2 is the only even prime (which, ironically, in some sense makes With 1 excluded, the smallest prime is therefore 2. Noted by Derbyshire (2004, p. 33), "2 pays its way on balance Number 1 made an exception? This is a problem that schoolboys often argue about,īut since it is a question of definition, it is not arguable." As more simply A slightly less illuminating but mathematicallyĬorrect reason is noted by Tietze (1965, p. 2), who states "Why is the Of primes would fail if the primes included 1. Words, unique factorization into a product Theorem of arithmetic would have to be modified since "in exactly A good reason not toĬall 1 a prime number is that if 1 were prime, then the statement of the fundamental Treatment in so many definitions and applications involving primes greater than orĮqual to 2 that it is usually placed into a class of its own. Sloane and Plouffe 1995, p. 33 Hardy 1999, p. 46), it requires special Although the number 1 used to be considered a prime (Goldbachġ742 Lehmer 1909, 1914 Hardy and Wright 1979, p. 11 Gardner 1984, pp. 86-87 The number 1 is a special case which is considered neither prime nor composite (Wells 1986, p. 31). While the term "prime number" commonly refers to prime positive integers, other types of primes are also defined, such as the Gaussian Other than 1 which are not prime are called composite Of 13 are 1 and 13, making 13 a prime number, while the number 24 has divisors 1,Ģ, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, and 24 (corresponding to the factorization ), Than 1, meaning it is a number that cannot be factored. Integer having exactly one positive divisor other No positive integer divisors other than 1 and itself. A prime number (or prime integer, often simply called a "prime" for short) is a positive integer that has
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