Prime numbers do not occur in nature and are only known to intelligent beings.
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Riiiiiiight! 2's a prime number you fuckwit!
The Seven Hills of Yungaburra, The Three Sisters. Most birds lay 1, 2 or 3 eggs - all prime numbers.
I can just see any pack of animals holding a caucus meeting because their pack population is suddenly a prime number and they need to sort out who to kick out!
<<< Most birds lay 1, 2 or 3 eggs - all prime numbers. >>>
1 is generally not considered prime (it doesn't have two, and only two, unique factors).
<<< I always thought the definition was only wholly divisible by 1 and itself. >>>
According to the Wikipedia article on prime numbers, the main reason 1 isn't included is so every number has a unique factorization into primes (if you include 1 as prime, you could add any number of factors of 1 to get a different factorization). Number theory generally divides integers into four classes: zero, units (1 and -1), primes, and composites.
Well numbers don't actually exist, they're mearly concepts created by mankind in order to make sense of the world (in a very over simplified explaination). So, um...yeah, dunno what my point is really. Or his.
Most birds lay 1, 2 or 3 eggs - all prime numbers.
1 is not a prime number, moron. Now go die in a fire.
@Generic FSTDT Idiot:
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1 is no longer considered a prime number, but was classed as one in most texts until the mid-50s. 2 and 3 are prime numbers. Many FSTDT members are in the 40s, 50s and even 60s or older and were taught that 1 is a prime number.
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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