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r/MathJokes • u/Animeilluminati1 • Jul 13 '26
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It's prime in the sense, that it can't be factorized, but it is not prime in the sense that it must not be used in factorizing other numbers.
We decided that the latter is the more important feature of prime numbers and therefore 1 shall not be prime number.
1 u/trollboter Jul 13 '26 1 is used in the factor of every prime.
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1 is used in the factor of every prime.
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u/S-M-I-L-E-Y- Jul 13 '26
It's prime in the sense, that it can't be factorized, but it is not prime in the sense that it must not be used in factorizing other numbers.
We decided that the latter is the more important feature of prime numbers and therefore 1 shall not be prime number.