[Gllug] What to do in 151 days?

[Paul Brazier]

> Humour me here, I think this is what I was taught at school.
> 
> If x is prime it has no factors.
> 
> After reading some of the previous emails I was beginning to 
> doubt the above
> if this is wrong could someone tell me why.

A prime number is _defined_ as an integer with no factors other than 1
and itself.

Also I think its the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic (?) that says
every integer has a unique factorisation of primes.


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