prime number
noun
: any integer other than 0 or ± 1 that is not divisible without remainder by any other integers except ± 1 and ± the integer itself
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Someone, somewhere, really doesn’t care for prime numbers.
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Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
In a scene toward the end of the series, Brooks writes out a formula for finding prime numbers that takes up about six by three feet of wall space and which Woodall had to write out by hand, from memory.
—Calum Marsh, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
In the Prime Target trailer, Leo Woodall plays a Newton-ridiculing, mathlete determined to find a pattern in prime numbers.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
The zeta function has long been known to govern the distribution of prime numbers.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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Graham Hillard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 21 Feb. 2025
In a scene toward the end of the series, Brooks writes out a formula for finding prime numbers that takes up about six by three feet of wall space and which Woodall had to write out by hand, from memory.
—Calum Marsh, New York Times, 22 Jan. 2025
In the Prime Target trailer, Leo Woodall plays a Newton-ridiculing, mathlete determined to find a pattern in prime numbers.
—Kalia Richardson, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2025
The zeta function has long been known to govern the distribution of prime numbers.
—Erica Klarreich, Quanta Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Prime number.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prime%20number. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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