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prime number

a natural number greater than 1 with no positive divisors other than 1 and itself

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Related Concepts

congruence composite number prime factorization divisibility greatest common divisor Diophantine equation

Core Idea

prime number is a natural number greater than 1 with no positive divisors other than 1 and itself. It usually makes the most sense alongside congruence, composite number, prime factorization.

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