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Alas but it is not a prime number. 1 is not a prime number, it is unity. Smalest prime number is 2. But it should be fairly easy for a computer program to find a prime number of that size.
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One is not prime. Sorry.
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If only 1 would be a prime number ...
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Are you sure its not?
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It's a shame 1 isn't actually prime!
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1 isn't prime
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You're all wrong. 1 really is prime!
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Sorry, but that's not a prime number.
Nice explanation why.
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Perhaps it's easier just to hit "reply" in a featured comment than to spend time reading all the replies so far only to make a gigantic post of bitcherdom.
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1 isn't a prime number. You just crashed the system!
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...Everyone knows 1 isn't prime. Your failing to enter a ONE-DIGIT PRIME NUMBER with 15 zeroes in front is TRWTF.
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No prime can be unique with respect to all possible bases.
Proof by contradiction: Let p be a prime that is unique with respect to all bases. Let q be any other prime. Let b = p*q.
Now both 1/p and 1/q are finite fractions in base b, and even have the same length (one digit after the period, whose value is q or p, rsp.). So even if we allow a period length of zero to indicate finite fractions, p is not unique wrt b.
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TRWTF is that they write that 2 is "odd" because it's the only even prime. Insert the definition of evenness, and you get: "2 is 'odd' because it is the only prime divisible by 2."
Which is really funny because for any prime p, p is the only prime divisible by p. See also Fallacies of definition.
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I believe you mean 0000000000000002
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Well, no. 1 is not a prime. Try 0000000000000002
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That is really quite genius. You can easily check your messages from a foreign hottie's bed when you wake up.
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+1 ;-)))
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The primes must be unique, where uniqueness (well,every number is unique, isn't it?) is defined in the wiki article mentioned above.
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0000000000000002 would have been the smallest prime number ;)
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Mmm.. Err..1 is neither prime nor composite.
Maybe 0000000000000003?
:)
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Sorry, 1 is not a prime number.
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People keep suggesting to use 0000000000000002, which is prime, but not unique. Keep trying.
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bzzt, the smallest Prime is 2.
Quoting Wikipedia:
In mathematics, a prime number (or a prime) is a natural number which has exactly two distinct natural number divisors: 1 and itself. An infinitude of prime numbers exists, as demonstrated by Euclid around 300 BC. The first thirty-four prime numbers are:
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One isn't prime.
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Since when is one considered a prime number? Since we did away with the fundamental theorem of arithmetic (JFGI) in the last revolution?
One is generally considered to be in a separate class, neither prime nor composite for this very reason.
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Gah! That is not a prime number. Please try again!
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1 is not prime
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Except that 1 isn't prime. http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Is_1_prime
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HAS ANYONE MENTIONED THAT ONE IS NOT A PRIME NUMBER YET??????????????? I AM OUTRAGED ABOUT MATH AND CAN NO LONGER READ WORDS
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But... 1 is no prime number... sigh
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1 is not a prime number. try 0000000000000002
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This has to be a first for TDWTF -- a post that actually extends the boundaries of mathematical knowledge, albeit in a fairly small way. It was actually worth wading through all that drivel to find it.
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9,999,999,900,000,001
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that would work except 1 isnt prime. Prime means that it is divisible by 1 AND itself
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You mean"
0000000000000002
;)
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1 is not a prime number!
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Except 0000000000000001 isn't prime, 0000000000000002 maybe?
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Nope. 0000000000000002, 0000000000000003, 0000000000000005, 0000000000000007, but not 0000000000000001, which is NOT PRIME
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Which is REALLY too bad, because I LOVED the comments that mentioned:
(note: I'm not a mathmatician, but even if I can't understand it, the math looks cool)Even THIS one had some tiny value that could have mitigated the slew of "1" posts:
Now if only someone had invented some kind of comment rating system for the masses, since obviously Alex gets bored of featuring them after a while...
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1 is not prime.
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Oops, didn't see all these other messages. Sorry for the redun-dunce.
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Don't want to be picky, but "1" is neither a prime nor a composite. But 0000000000000002 will do ;-)
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Sorry, didn't see all the replies. My bad.
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Is it just me who thinks that 1 is not a prime number?
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or multiply smaller primes until you get a 16-digit number, then add 1 ?
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No, no, no ... the REAL WTF is that when you enter a 16-digit number (and none of this silliness about leading zeroes, hexadecimal or other crap, please) the software quickly CHECKS IT for primeness and continues.
Factoring large prime numbers is distinctly non-trivial, and the software can't be using a lookup table - there must be millions of 16-digit primes - notwithstanding the Wikipedia article about 'Unique primes'. Didn't the original 'article' just say enter a 16-digit prime number ?
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Oh yeah, I checked. It did say 'enter a unique 16-digit prime number', but if the comments I've seen tonight are any indication, it was written by someone with only a vague idea of what a prime is, so they used a vague description, not a mathematical one.
All primes are unique in the ordinary sense of the word, all ordinal numbers are unique. That's why they're called ordinal.
Sheesh!
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