Prime numbers are numbers that can only be made by multiplying that number by one; 1,2,3,5,7,11,13,etc. what are the other numbers (4,6,8,9,10,12. . .) classified as?
2007-09-04 03:15:00 · 9 answers · asked by xxxbleedingspiritxxx 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
composite numbers
2007-09-04 04:13:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Opposite Of Prime Number
2016-11-07 04:19:52 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Considering only whole numbers bigger than zero....
- A prime number is divisible only by 1 and itself. The number 1 is NOT prime.
- A composite number is any number that has a factor other than itself and 1. Every number that is not prime or 1 is composite.
- The number 1 is special, it is not prime and not composite.
Every number can be factored into a product of primes (maybe with some primes repeated) in exactly one way, if you don't worry about the order of the factors. For example, 30 = (2)(3)(5) = (3)(5)(2) etc., and 12 = (2)(2)(3) or (2)(3)(2) or (3)(2)(2). So the prime factorization of 12 has exactly two 2's and one 3, in whatever order.
That's why 1 can't be prime: you could multiply by as many 1's as you want and still get the same number, and then the factorization wouldn't be unique.
2007-09-04 03:37:53 · answer #3 · answered by TurtleFromQuebec 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Opposite Of Prime
2016-12-15 09:54:29 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First let me say that 1 is not a prime. It is called a unit.
There are three sets of positive integers.
Units, which consists of only 1. (In more general mathematical setups this is not so trivial.)
Prime numbers. This are 2, 3, 5, 7 -- numbers that are greater than one and cannot be factored.
And composite numbers. Those that can be factored into 2 or more primes.
2007-09-04 03:23:40 · answer #5 · answered by doctor risk 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all, 1 is not a prime. It is a unit.
Prime numbers are whole numbers greater
than 1 which are divisible only by 1 and themselves.
The others are called composite numbers.
2007-09-04 03:22:49 · answer #6 · answered by steiner1745 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
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What is the opposite of a prime number?
Prime numbers are numbers that can only be made by multiplying that number by one; 1,2,3,5,7,11,13,etc. what are the other numbers (4,6,8,9,10,12. . .) classified as?
2015-08-18 06:15:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Composite.
2007-09-04 03:18:05 · answer #8 · answered by Edgar Greenberg 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
this is call even number that can multiply and devided into 2
2007-09-04 03:24:31 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composite_number
2007-09-04 03:19:43 · answer #10 · answered by andyg77 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋