What Are Prime Numbers

What are prime numbers?

Prime numbers are numbers greater than 1 that only have two factors, 1 and the number itself

Properties of prime numbers

Some of the properties of prime numbers are listed below:

Every number greater than 1 can be divided by at least one prime number.Every even positive integer greater than 2 can be expressed as the sum of two primes.Except 2, all other prime numbers are odd. In other words, we can say that 2 is the only even prime number.Two prime numbers are always coprime to each other.Examples of prime numbers