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A prime number is a number that can only be divided by itself and 1 without having any remainder.

In mathematical terms a prime number is a whole number greater than 1 with only two factors themselves and 1 i.e. a prime number cannot be divided by any other positive integer without leaving a remainder, a decimal or a fraction.
Another prime number definition is that it is a positive integer that has only exactly two distinct divisors (which is one, and itself) and therefore since the divisors of 2 are 1 and 2, there are exactly two distinct divisors (which is one and itself), so 2 is prime.
An example of a prime number is 5. Its only divisors are 1 and 5. Dividing a prime number by another natural number results in a remainder e.g. 5 ÷ 2 = 2 remainder 1 (or 2.5, or two and a half, i.e. not a whole number).
8 is not an example of a prime number because it can be divided by 4 and 2 as well as by itself and 1, 8 is therefore an example of a composite number because it has more than two factors.
Prime numbers are often seen as the primary building blocks by mathematicians as a fundamental theorem of arithmetic states that a composite number ( A whole number that can be written as the product of two smaller numbers) can be expressed as the product of prime numbers.
When we withdraw money or use a computer to communicate in a private way the communication between us and the computer is encrypted. Many codes for encryption are based on the properties of prime numbers.
Below is a list of the prime numbers between 1 and 100 in order. 2 is a prime number because other numbers can be divided by it leaving no remainder.
Below is a prime number list to 100, in order.