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What is the only positive number that is neither prime nor composite?
1 is neither prime nor a composite number.The number one (1).
Is 17.5 a prime or composite number?
Neither. The concept of prime and composite applies only to positive whole numbers [greater than 1].
Is 0 a composite number?
A composite number has more than two positive integer factors. A prime number has exactly two positive integer factors. 0 is therefore neither prime nor composite. It is not "composed" of any factors.Zero (0) is neither composite nor prime.
Is the number one prime composite or neither?
Neither. The characteristic of being prime or composite is defined for positive integers that are greater than or equal to 2.
Is the number 196 composite prime or neither?
Since 196 is a positive even integer it is a composite number.
The only positive number that is neither prime nor composite?
1
What is neither a prime nor a composite number?
It is 1 that is neither a prime or a composite number The number 1 is neither prime nor composite.
Why is the number 1 composite?
The number 1 is not composite, or prime. The number 1 has one positive integer factor. A composite number has more than two positive integer factors, while a prime number has two positive integer factors. Therefore, the number 1 is neither prime nor composite.
What is the only positive number that is not prime or composite?
1 is neither prime or composite, and is the only one that is positive. The term for one is something like the identity element.
Is one a prime composite or neither?
The number 1 is neither a prime nor a composite number.
Under the number 31 what is the only positive number that is neither prime nor composite?
1
Are there any number that are neither prime nor composite?
Yes. All prime numbers and composite numbers are positive integers, or whole counting numbers. That leaves infinitely many numbers that are neither prime nor composite. If you intended to narrow the scope of your question to the whole counting numbers or to the positive integers, then there are NO such numbers that are neither. A counting number, however large, will be either prime or composite.
