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prime
first grade or best quality.


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A prime number is only divisible by itself and one.
PRIME NUMBERS The numbers 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41 etc are prime numbers which are the loners of the maths world because each one can only be divided by itself and one.
The newly discovered number is an example of a specific type of prime number called a Mersenne prime, named after the 17th century French scholar Marin Mersenne.
 
 
 
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