I'm aware that most famous mathematicians think that it isn't but I can never seem to make my mind up about what I think. I mean, the only whole numbers that can go into 1 ARE 1 and itself but itself is one and therefor you cold say it proves nothing. I have no idea what I'm talking about. Lets see what you think.
Yes 1 is prime when a number can only be multiplied with itself or another number i think it's a prime those mathematicians are just stupid thinking about "Is 1 a prime number?" When they aren't even smart enough to know that 1 is indeed a prime number
well prime numbers can only be split as one multiplied by themselves, so if a=1*b and b is prime, it means that a=b=prime well, 1=1*1, so yes it should be prime. but others say that 1*1*1*1*1*1*1*...(infinite+1)...*1=1, and this equation must be done immediately. Well screw them, 1 is prime.
One can be proven as a prime but my teachers keep on confusing me by teaching that one is not a prime.
Primality of one Until the 19th century, most mathematicians considered the number 1 a prime, with the definition being just that a prime is divisible only by 1 and itself but not requiring a specific number of distinct divisors. There is still a large body of mathematical work that is valid despite labelling 1 a prime, such as the work of Stern and Zeisel. Derrick Norman Lehmer's list of primes up to 10,006,721, reprinted as late as 1956,[2] started with 1 as its first prime.[3] Henri Lebesgue is said to be the last professional mathematician to call 1 prime.[citation needed] The change in label occurred so that the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, as stated, is valid, i.e., âeach number has a unique factorization into primes.â[4][5] Furthermore, the prime numbers have several properties that the number 1 lacks, such as the relationship of the number to its corresponding value of Euler's totient function or the sum of divisors function.[6]
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Confusing right? Now I am off to do something less confusing.
