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Define the prime numbers?

Define the prime numbers?

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Question added by Emad Hamdi , Maths Teacher , Halley International schools, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Date Posted: 2015/01/16
Anne Marie Cañete
by Anne Marie Cañete , Accounting staff , Hijo Logistics Solutions, Inc.

Prime numbers are numbers that can only be divided by1 and itself.

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by Deleted user

A prime number is a whole number greater than 1, whose only two whole-number factors are 1 and itself. The first few prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, and 29. As we proceed in the set of natural numbers N = {1, 2, 3, ...}, the primes become less and less frequent in general.

A number cannot be devided by another number .1 is not including.it can be writtwn as

P={2,3,5,7,,,,,,...}

 

Anshu  Kamboj
by Anshu Kamboj , Teacher , Greater noida world school

Prime numbers are the numbers which have only two factors 1 and itself. E.g. 2, 3, 5 , 523 etc

Aprilyn Seidel
by Aprilyn Seidel , KS4 IGCSE Maths and Advanced Maths Teacher , Kingsley international School

Prime numbers are whole numbers greater than 1, and has a factor of only itself and 1. 

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