No, because a prime number is 1x a number, but it is not a number multiplied itself. The only way you can get 1 as a product is when you multiply 1x1.
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The number one is far more special than a prime! It is the unit (the building block) of the positive integers, hence the only integer which merits its own existence axiom in Peano's axioms. It is the only multiplicative identity (1.a = a.1 = a for all numbers a).
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With applets to demonstrate properties of primes. ... A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that can be divided evenly only by 1 and itself. Thus the first few prime numbers are...
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www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/math/prime.html
www.math.utah.edu/~alfeld/math/prime.html
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No, it is not. Many people think that a prime number is a number which is divisible only by 1 and itself. The number 1 satisfies this condition. So, they wonder why 1 is not prime. The actual definition of prime number is a natural number w...
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Is 1 a Prime Number? A prime number is any integer number that is divisible only by 1 and itself. 1 certainly satisfies this definition. However, there is a convention to... ... This question has been asked a few days ago and I explained why mathematicians decided not to treat 1 as a prime number. Doing so would...
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Prime number - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In mathematics, a prime number (or a prime ) is a natural number which has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself. The first twenty-six prime numbers are: An infinitude of pr...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_number
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Ars Technica Ars OpenForum 3.0b The Lounge Is 1 A prime number? (With a Poll!) ... Prime Numbers are not divisible by prime numbers. Thus, if 1 were a prime, it would be divisible by a prime number, which we can't have.
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Prime Number Generator description ... Softpedia guarantees that Prime Number Generator 2.0.1 is 100% CLEAN, which means it does not contain any form of malware, including spyware, viruses, trojans and backdoors. [read more >]
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Mersenne primes are numbers that are one less than a power of 2 and also prime numbers. The prime number 7, for example, is one less than 2 to the power of 3 (or 2³ - 1). The numbers 3, 31 and 127 are all Mersenne primes and there are 46 in total.
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www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/29/maths
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