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[–] 3 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Gotta add context for readers.

Of all the numbers to call boring you picked the Grothendieck prime.

2 is unambiguously prime. The best motivation for the definition of primality I know is the fundamental theorem of arithmetic: every integer greater than 1 can be uniquely decomposed into a product of primes. That's what primes are, and the uniqueness constraint is why 1 is not prime.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago (1 child)

    the uniqueness constraint is why 1 is not prime.

    There's more than one way to multiply numbers to get 1?

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    But by that reasoning, 7 is not prime because you can do 7, 1*7, 1*1*7 etc.

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