because Prime number is a number that can only be divided by 1. cuz 1 is itself it is just crossing the border line.
Comments: That's a good question.
The number "one" seems too fit the basic definition of a prime number.
It's only divisible by 1 and itself (1 again).
There are various explanations, but the simplest reason is that "one" is just defined as not being a prime number.
Mathematicians do that sort of thing sometimes, for reasons which seem obscure to "ordinary" people.
Prime. It's the 126th smallest one.
The smallest prime number is 2.
The only even prime number is the smallest even number, 2.
The smallest prime number is 2. The smallest prime number greater than 100 is 101.
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The cube root of this number is one more than the smallest prime
Since a prime number can only be divided by itself and one, theoretically, the smallest prime number is 1 itself. However - many people class the number 1 as a 'special' case - and thus claim the smallest prime number is 2.
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2 is the smallest prime number. It is co-prime with every odd number.
The smallest prime number after 200 is 211.
The smallest prime number is 2.
The smallest prime number is 2.
Two (2) is considered to be the smallest prime number.
3 is the smallest odd prime number.
11 is the 5th smallest prime #
The smallest prime number is 2.
The smallest three digit prime number is 101.