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What is the smallest prime?

20 Sep 2012

From Chris K. Caldwell and Yeng Xiong: What is the first prime? It seems that the number two should be the obvious answer, and today it is, but it was not always so. There were times when and mathematicians for whom the numbers one and three were acceptable answers. To find the first prime, we [...]
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