Re: Structure of Primes

From: John Savard (jsavard_at_excxn.aNOSPAMb.cdn.invalid)
Date: 05/16/05


Date: Mon, 16 May 2005 16:53:38 GMT

On Mon, 16 May 2005 11:10:27 +0300, "Wannabee" <no@mail.thanks> wrote,
in part:

>Negative primes, wow! The rest of the mathematical world must be wrong!

If someone wishes to treat 1 and -1 as prime, 0 and all other negative
integers as composite, one can do so consistently, one just loses the
unique decomposition of positive integers into primes.

John Savard
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