A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers.
The first few prime numbers are: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, …
78,498 of the first one million positive integers are prime.
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