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Wikipedia [1] also mentions that: "Most early Greeks did not even consider 1 to be a number, so they could not consider its primality". Both articles (scientifi
by HenryBemis 8y ago
Wikipedia [1] also mentions that: "Most early Greeks did not even consider 1 to be a number, so they could not consider its primality". Both articles (scientific american & wikipedia) refer to the same paper [2].
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number
[2]:https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL15/Caldwell2/cald6.html https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL15/Caldwell2/cald6.h...
- empath75 8y agoI always raise an eyebrow at statements like ‘most early greeks’, because who knows how many of them actually read Euclid or had any exposure to math at all.