Prime

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Prime Number

A number p>1 is prime if it has no divisor other than 1 and itself.  Note that 1 is usually defined as being neither prime nor composite because it is its only factor among the natural numbers.  0 is also defined as neither because any number times 0 is equal to 0, so it would have an "infinite" number of factors.