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A number that refuses to be a team player — divides by nothing but 1 and itself.
means A whole number greater than 1 that has no divisors except 1 and itself.
from From Latin 'primus,' meaning 'first' — these numbers were seen as the first or most basic building blocks of arithmetic, the atoms every other number is built from. The mathematical sense was already established in ancient Greek mathematics (Euclid discusses them explicitly), with 'prime' entering English via Latin and French to carry that 'first-rank, fundamental' sense into number theory.
- loneliest even
- 2 is the only even prime
- infinite supply
- Euclid proved they never run out
- internet security
- huge primes keep your bank data safe
- still unsolved
- finding patterns in them remains a mystery