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How do you find out if a number is a prime or composite?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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7y ago

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Factor it. Prime numbers have two factors, composite numbers have more than two.

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A Prime number has only 2 factors which are 1 and itself. Composite numbers are everything else except 1 and 0. 1 and 0 are neither prime, nor composite.

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