[Sussex] Just for the record....

Mark Harrison Mark at ascentium.co.uk
Fri Feb 28 22:14:01 UTC 2003


1 is, contrary to the assertion last night, Odd.

1 is not, however, Prime.

I was, however, most impressed at the level of confidence expressed by
virtually the entire team in getting Nick to believe that 1 was a special
case Even number... Most impressive, team :-)

And, to answer the question "why is one not prime", the basic answer is
"there's a whole bunch of general properties that prime numbers have, and
one doesn't have them :-)"

Regards,

Mark





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