natural definition: “A prime is a natural number with exactly two factors”
I’m not sure I quite understand your suggestion: we should define 1 as prime, but then write “except for 1” every time we use the word prime? Wouldn’t it be quicker just to exclude 1 in the first place (even if there were some sense in which 1 was prime)?
natural definition: “A prime is a natural number with exactly two factors”
I’m not sure I quite understand your suggestion: we should define 1 as prime, but then write “except for 1” every time we use the word prime? Wouldn’t it be quicker just to exclude 1 in the first place (even if there were some sense in which 1 was prime)?