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Mathematics
The Loneliest Number: Why 1 Isn't Prime
The number 1 used to be prime. Mathematicians demoted it — not on a whim, but because keeping it broke the most beautiful theorem in arithmetic.
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The number 1 used to be prime. Mathematicians demoted it — not on a whim, but because keeping it broke the most beautiful theorem in arithmetic.
— From “The Loneliest Number: Why 1 Isn't Prime”
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