2, 3, and every integer of the form 6n +/- 1 up to the square root of the number, rounded up. This is the simplest way to check a smaller subset of possible divisors, and yet not worry about the primality of the divisors.
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You divide the number by 2. If the number is able to divide WITHOUT a remainder, then it is a prime number. If you divide a number by 1, you will get the same number. That is not a prime number.
Yes. To prove it, you can take the square root of 2011 (about 44.8), and divide 2011 by all the prime numbers under this number. You'll see none of them divide, so it's prime.
120 is NOT a prime number because you can divide it by 10 and 5 and 2....
No it is not. A prime number will only divide (to give an integer as a result) by 1 and itself. 267 will also divide by 89 & 3 so it is not prime.
The prime numbers are: 5 and 43