Re: prime numbers and African artifact

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G. A. Edgar (edgar@math.ohio-state.edu)
Thu, 13 Jul 1995 14:10:56 -0400

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>I'm familiar with three definitions of "prime number".
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>[1] A positive integer divisible only by itself and by 1.

I'll bet you cannot find a mathematics textbook that has this
definition.