prime number

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   an integer that has no integral factors but itself and 1

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Questions about prime number

What does prime number mean?

prime number means "an integer that has no integral factors but itself and 1".

Is prime number a common word?

prime number is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.