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> in fact, many mathematicians think the smallest prime is even Up to sign? The smallest prime is even.
by coherentpony 10y ago
> in fact, many mathematicians think the smallest prime is even
Up to sign? The smallest prime is even.
- Someone 10y ago1 could be a prime, too, as for example Legendre, Lesbegue, Cayley (in the Encyclopædia Britannica), Kronecker, Hardy and Sagan stated at least once (see the URL I linked to earlier) One isn't typically called a prime for the same reason as mathematicians typically say 0^0 equals 1; it makes many theorems and proofs look better.
- coherentpony 10y agoHm. I'm a mathematician. I always thought it wasn't called prime because it breaks uniqueness for the fundamental theorem of arithmetic.
- teamfrizz 10y agoIt makes it look pret29th!