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The accepted definition of a Prime number is a natural number which has exactly two distinct divisors. The number 1 has only one distinct divisor: itself. The number 0 can be said to have infinitely many distinct divisors.

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Q: Why is 0 and 1 are neither prime nor composite numbers?
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