I've forgotten the message that spawned the thread, but I'll expose my 
incompetence in math to say that I was also thinking that 1 is prime. The 
informal definition that I remember says that a number is prime if it is an 
integer evenly divisible only by itself and 1. Well, 1 clearly is divisible by 
itself (1/1 = 1) and divisible by 1 (1/1 = 1), so by that informal definition, 
it must be prime. The perils of natural language and informal definitions.

;; Gary
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