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Legacy Documentation

The Mathematical Explorer^TM (2001)

This is documentation for an obsolete product.

Prime Prime[ n ] gives the n prime number. Prime[1] is 2. On most computer systems, Prime[ n ] for n up to can be obtained quite quickly. See The Mathematica Book on the web:Section 3.2.4. Implementation Notes on the web: see Section A.9.4. See also: FactorInteger, PrimeQ, PrimePi, Primes. Further Examples