What so prime about a number
I learned about prime numbers today. I WILLINGLY TAUGHT MYSELF MATH (don't tell people). You heard it right.
It turned out a prime number is a number greater than 1 that cannot be a product of two smaller numbers. So, 4 is not a prime number because 2x2 is 4. 2 is a prime number because the only way you can come up with a product of 2 is if you use 2 itself, which you can't do (e.g. 1x2 or 2x1). 5 is also a prime number because there are no two numbers smaller than 5 that you can multiply together to get a product of 5. And so on. The opposite of a prime number is called a composite.
Hold it. It's math y'all and I know all about it. Yikes. Ew. I'm aware.
I'm sure we had this in elementary but my brain was not letting Maths in at the time. Still not doing that present time, most of the time. It even took me a while to finally get it. I had to read through multiple Google searches. If Google is a friend, they'd be a very pissed friend. I could be dense, especially in Maths.
It's thanks to the Internet that I learned it actually. There is this video of two YouTubers that I follow where they take turns asking the other questions and drink an alcoholic beverage as a consequence if they answered incorrectly. Of course, I tried to answer the questions too. One of the questions, the only mathematical one, was about a prime number. And it was one of the questions I didn't get right. Surprise. I know. The person in the video didn't know too, so I'm not alone at least. But it got me thinking that I'm so bad at Maths that I don't even know basic Maths. Dumb, I know.
So, I guess what I'm trying to say is that not all things on the Internet are bad or dumbing (is that a word?). And that you can even let the Internet educate you.
There's so much about Maths that I don't know, but at least I know about prime numbers. Gimme that five!
It turned out a prime number is a number greater than 1 that cannot be a product of two smaller numbers. So, 4 is not a prime number because 2x2 is 4. 2 is a prime number because the only way you can come up with a product of 2 is if you use 2 itself, which you can't do (e.g. 1x2 or 2x1). 5 is also a prime number because there are no two numbers smaller than 5 that you can multiply together to get a product of 5. And so on. The opposite of a prime number is called a composite.
Hold it. It's math y'all and I know all about it. Yikes. Ew. I'm aware.
I'm sure we had this in elementary but my brain was not letting Maths in at the time. Still not doing that present time, most of the time. It even took me a while to finally get it. I had to read through multiple Google searches. If Google is a friend, they'd be a very pissed friend. I could be dense, especially in Maths.
It's thanks to the Internet that I learned it actually. There is this video of two YouTubers that I follow where they take turns asking the other questions and drink an alcoholic beverage as a consequence if they answered incorrectly. Of course, I tried to answer the questions too. One of the questions, the only mathematical one, was about a prime number. And it was one of the questions I didn't get right. Surprise. I know. The person in the video didn't know too, so I'm not alone at least. But it got me thinking that I'm so bad at Maths that I don't even know basic Maths. Dumb, I know.
So, I guess what I'm trying to say is that not all things on the Internet are bad or dumbing (is that a word?). And that you can even let the Internet educate you.
There's so much about Maths that I don't know, but at least I know about prime numbers. Gimme that five!
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