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> I am not sure why 0 is not considered a prime number in this context. The greatest common divisor of any two primes is one. To say that two numbers are copri
by yakubin 8y ago
> I am not sure why 0 is not considered a prime number in this context.
The greatest common divisor of any two primes is one. To say that two numbers are coprime, is to say their greatest common divisor is 1. If we considered 0 a prime, it would be a bit weird (and messy) that two prime (0 and any other prime number) numbers aren't coprime.