Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

Mark Haddon
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Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them. Prime numbers are the only numbers which are multiples of themselves. For instance, the number 6 is a prime number because it is divisible by 2 and 3.

The number 5 is not a prime number because it is not divisible by itself. Even though prime numbers seem to be logical, there is no way you can work out the rules of how they come about.

Source: The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Nighttime

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