Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A positive integer not divisible without a remainder by any positive integer other than itself and one.
Wiktionary
- n. number theory Any natural number greater than 1 divisible only by itself and 1.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Arith.) a number which is exactly divisible by no number except itself or unity, as 5, 7, 11.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an integer that has no integral factors but itself and 1
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Prime Time
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Mathematical
Including Logic as well.
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oroboros Prime numbers are the "atoms" of the number continuum--divisible only by 1 or by themselves. See sieve for a link to see one way they're found. Feb 14, 2007