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A Prime number has exactly two factors, 1 and the number itself. Any number having more factors than a prime is a composite number.
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What counting number is nethier a prime or composite?
The number 1.
What counting number is not a prime nor composite number?
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.
How do you decide if a number is prime or composite?
a prime number is if the number only can be divided by 1 and itself. If it has more than 2 factors it is a composite
Are all prime numbers composite no?
Every positive integer greater than 1 is either prime or composite.
