[xsl] OT - primes (was Re: [xsl] when to use xslt)

[Mark Lundquist <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Jan 14, 2005, at 12:46 AM, Andrew Curry wrote:

>  The reason why 1 is said not to be a prime number is merely 
> convenience.

Ah... OK, sure, analogous to defining 0! = 1.

> For example, if 1 was prime then the prime factorization of 6 would 
> not be
> unique since 2 times 3 = 1 times 2 times 3. A number that can be 
> written as
> a product of prime numbers is  composite. Thus there are three types of
> natural numbers: primes, composites, and 1.

Makes perfect sense :-)
-ml-