Question: Using quantifiers, give a formal expression for the following statement:
"The natural number p is prime"
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Question: Using quantifiers, give a formal expression for the following statement:
"The natural number p is prime"
Thanks all :)
A primeis a natural number whose unique positive divisors are
and
So we can write for: "the natural number
is a prime"
:
What you call formal may depend on what symbols you can use. If only a symbolfor multiplication is allowed (and the division one
isn't), it becomes:
: