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Primes

Primes
represents the domain of prime numbers, as in x

Primes.

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xPrimes evaluates only if x is a numeric quantity.

Simplify[exprPrimes] can be used to try to determine whether an expression corresponds to a prime number.

The domain of primes is taken to be a subset of the domain of integers.

PrimeQ[expr] returns False unless expr explicitly has head Integer.

Primes is output in TraditionalForm as .

Basic Examples (3)

The number

is a prime:

Fermat's little theorem:

Find primes satisfying an inequality:

Applications (2)

Properties & Relations (3)

Element Simplify PrimeQ Prime Integers

Simplifying with Assumptions

Using Assumptions

Assumptions and Domains

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