Is 1 a prime number?

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Postby Neil_Bryan » 2009.05.31 (03:37)

I don't know... but since I do like math, I think it is a prime number. It's divideable by one and itself.

I also wrote:Then again, it isn't because if a prime number is divideable by one and itself, then that means one is only divideable by one (not one and one, that's the same thing), and since prime numbers are divideable by what I just said and composite numbers are divideable by three or more factors, one isn't a prime number or composite.
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Postby Ampersand » 2009.05.31 (03:56)

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blue_tetris wrote:Haha, I like how this ended. Like any mathematical "debate", only two posts are required: the question and the answer. It's math.
This is exactly how the .(9) = 1 "debate" should have gone.
Low blow. Uncalled for, dude. Uncalled for. I think that debate went exactly how it should have gone.
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Postby Ampersand » 2009.05.31 (05:50)

I don't think you guys grasped what the debate was about. It was a bet between Dave and I that I could successfully defend an inherently false point - Which I did for quite a good while before we got bored of the whole debate and threw caution to the wind. And then the Oops, Pow, Surprise happened. Wasn't it a bit strange that he and I were both in on the spam? Of course we weren't *actually* debating. And that shit was fun. =D
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Postby Sniperwhere » 2009.06.05 (22:33)

Um... how much of this whole topic is still about whether or not 1 is a prime number.

The way I see it, the books say it isn't, that's good enough for me. Not like my life will dramatically change forever if it happens to be a prime.

But i know this isn't serious, so, whatever.


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