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so 1 is not a prime number mostly because it's very convenient
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so 1 is not a prime number mostly because it's very convenient that way, but if we were to throw convenience out the window and try to make mathematics as 'natural' as possible, would 1 be a prime?
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>>7971446
No
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>>7971447
but why not? saying 1 is not a prime because primes are "a number greater than 1 that is only divisible by 1 and itself" is kinda like saying 9 is not divisible by 3 because numbers divisible by 3 are "a number greater than 9 that is divisible by 3".
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>>7971446
>primes - four divisors
>1 - two divisors
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>>7971450
Define prime numbers as the ones which have exactly 4 integer divisors.
There you are, no need to cry.
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>>7971456
dude what i mean is that prime numbers are divisible by 1 and themselves. this includes 1 because it's divisible by 1 and itself, it's just that both those divisors happen to be the same number. the only thing that excludes 1 from being prime is that people say so
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The only reason to say that 1 is not prime is so that then you can say "each prime as a unique prime factorisation"

Prove me wrong.
There is no genuine reason for it other than autism
> waaaahh 7 = 7*1 !! My autistic little weeny brain can't handle it waaahhhhhh
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>>7971456
Integer divisors of 2:
1, 2
Therefore 2 is not a prime number.

Huuurrrr
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>>7971446
It's in the definition of primes that they aren't units...
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>>7971540
Go back to college
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>>7971537
>prove me wrong
You're right, but I don't see why that is an issue. Why not make our definitions useful?

>>7971450
That's not the definition of prime (it's sort of the definition of irreducible, which is the same for integers, but you need to state it more precisely). A number [math] p \ne \pm 1 [/math] is prime if whenever [math]p \mid ab[/math,], either [math] p \mid a [/math] or [math] p \mid b [/math].
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>>7971540
what about -1 and -2?
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>>7971615
Only correct answer in this thread.
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