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Math textbooks define a prime number as a whole number greater than one whose only positive divisors are only 1 and itself.
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Jeremiah Bartz, The Conversation, 30 May 2025
This conclusion contradicts the original assumption, however, because if and are both even, neither of them can be a divisor.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 June 2024
Zhang therefore turned to another sieve that only sifts out numbers with large prime divisors.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
Because 10 is not a prime number, such unpleasant zero divisors occur.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
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Jeremiah Bartz, The Conversation, 30 May 2025
This conclusion contradicts the original assumption, however, because if and are both even, neither of them can be a divisor.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 June 2024
Zhang therefore turned to another sieve that only sifts out numbers with large prime divisors.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 7 June 2024
Because 10 is not a prime number, such unpleasant zero divisors occur.
—Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 11 Jan. 2024
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“Divisor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/divisor. Accessed 14 Jul. 2025.
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divisor
noun
di·vi·sor
də-ˈvī-zər 
: the number by which a dividend is divided
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