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One has properties that are significantly different than the primes. Doesn't it make sense that if it behaves differently than the primes that it isn't a prime,
by wl 13y ago
One has properties that are significantly different than the primes. Doesn't it make sense that if it behaves differently than the primes that it isn't a prime, but something else?
- gizmo686 13y agoOne also has the properties that are iconic of primes: its only factors are one and itself. We went out of are way to exclude it, by using a less natural definition of prime numbers, because of how often we would have to say primes greater than 1.