On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
$ openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.7f 22 Mar 2005
$ openssl prime 2
2 is not prime
But.. 2 is prime right?
correct. but its the only even prime number - hence its an odd prime number!
;-)
perhaps this fact/quirk is why its not known as prime?
alan
Not a quirk. The set of even numbers is the set of whole numbers
divisible by 2, making 2 the only even prime by definition.
Kind of like the "quirk" that the only prime number whose digits add up to
3 is 3.
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