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kogasa@programming.dev 2 days agoGotta add context for readers.
Of all the numbers to call boring you picked the Grothendieck prime.
2 is unambiguously prime. The best motivation for the definition of primality I know is the fundamental theorem of arithmetic: every integer greater than 1 can be uniquely decomposed into a product of primes. That’s what primes are, and the uniqueness constraint is why 1 is not prime.
toynbee@piefed.social 2 days ago
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 8 hours ago
There’s more than one way to multiply numbers to get 1?
kogasa@programming.dev 6 hours ago
1, 11, 11*1, etc
tias@discuss.tchncs.de 5 hours ago
But by that reasoning, 7 is not prime because you can do 7, 1*7, 1*1*7 etc.
kogasa@programming.dev 5 hours ago
Hence why 1 is not considered prime