prime number

alkuluku puhekieltä Any natural number that is greater than 1 and is divisible only by itself and 1.
(quote-magazine ) | passage=Some poems, echoing the purpose of early poetic treatises on scientific principles, attempt to elucidate the mathematical concepts that underlie prime numbers. Others play with primes’ cultural associations. Still others derive their structure from mathematical patterns involving primes.

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