Blackberry gets furious if you say 1 is a prime number

[Funk]

Being that 1 IS a prime number, and all. SHE CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

[Red Dragon]

Re: Blackberry gets furious if you say 1 is a prime number

Awesome.

[Duel]

Re: Blackberry gets furious if you say 1 is a prime number

She's a Decepticon, that's why.

[Cutter De Blanc]

Re: Blackberry gets furious if you say 1 is a prime number

It's not divisible by 1 and itself! Only one!

[John Mora]

Re: Blackberry gets furious if you say 1 is a prime number

Divorce her now.

[JPS]

Re: Blackberry gets furious if you say 1 is a prime number

Id like to know how this conversation arose...lol

[Chrono]

Re: Blackberry gets furious if you say 1 is a prime number

The number 1 is a special case which is considered neither prime nor composite (Wells 1986, p. 31). Although the number 1 used to be considered a prime (Goldbach 1742; Lehmer 1909, 1914; Hardy and Wright 1979, p. 11; Gardner 1984, pp. 86-87; Sloane and Plouffe 1995, p. 33; Hardy 1999, p. 46), it requires special treatment in so many definitions and applications involving primes greater than or equal to 2 that it is usually placed into a class of its own. A good reason not to call 1 a prime number is that if 1 were prime, then the statement of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic would have to be modified since "in exactly one way" would be false because any n=n·1. In other words, unique factorization into a product of primes would fail if the primes included 1. A slightly less illuminating but mathematically correct reason is noted by Tietze (1965, p. 2), who states "Why is the number 1 made an exception? This is a problem that schoolboys often argue about, but since it is a question of definition, it is not arguable." As more simply noted by Derbyshire (2004, p. 33), "2 pays its way [as a prime] on balance; 1 doesn't."

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[The_Real_Crunk]

Re: Blackberry gets furious if you say 1 is a prime number

I forgot what a prime number was right after leaving highschool. Also if you asked me what a verb or a noun is I wouldnt be able to tell you.

i r smurt

[Sivart the Sloth Trencher]

Re: Blackberry gets furious if you say 1 is a prime number

A verb is an action. A noun is a person, place, or thing.

Posting [verb] at the Pavilion [noun].

[The_Real_Crunk]

Re: Blackberry gets furious if you say 1 is a prime number

PRONOUNS! ADJECTIVES! ONOMATOPEEEEE-WHATEVER.

I have no need for such things!

[Sivart the Sloth Trencher]

Re: Blackberry gets furious if you say 1 is a prime number

Hey man, I'm here to help you through this! Adjectives are descriptors, no one gives a **** about pronouns (I, me and stuff like that.. I think?) and onomatopoeia is what you use for a word that's spelled how it sounds. Like.. Kaboom and bang and stuff like that.

[JPS]

Re: Blackberry gets furious if you say 1 is a prime number

PRONOUNS! ADJECTIVES! ONOMATOPEEEEE-WHATEVER.

I have no need for such things!

Agreed...as long as I can make a sentence that people can understand what's the point in knowing what each part of the sentence is called?

I have some knowledge as to what some things are called grammar-wise...but a majority of those disappeared after high school.