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The concept of prime numbers has been known since ancient times, with the earliest known reference dating back to around 300 BCE in Euclid's "Elements." Primes are defined as natural numbers greater than 1 that have no positive divisors other than 1 and themselves. By this definition, prime numbers have existed as long as the natural numbers themselves, which means they are as old as mathematics itself.

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