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Prime number

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A prime number (or Prime for short) is a number that can be divided only by itself and 1. (not including 1)
11 Is a prime number because you can only write it as (11/1) or (11/11) to get a interger number
But 6 is not a prime number because you can write it as (6/2), (6/3) and more...

Examples of Primes[edit | edit source]

The next 10 digits in front of you are natural numbers

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10

The next 10 digits in front of you are prime numbers

2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29

Only even numbers are prime numbers (except 2), natural number can be showed with n.