prime numbers let you abstract away parts of math that would normally require bruteforce to solve in the human mind. Remember finding the common denominator in

prime numbers let you abstract away parts of math that would normally require bruteforce to solve in the human mind. Remember finding the common denominator in school, or reducing fractions to their lowest form. both require guess work to do the normally taught way, but both can be achieved using prime factorization in a "set" way that resolves to a solution. I struggled in grade school to do fractions purely because of reducing and common denominators, but ended up tutoring people how to do them in college pre-algebra because thats when I learned about prime factors and what you can do with them. If i had learned algebra before basic fractions i likely wouldn't had needed to dropout of high school and get a ged.