Bug Report: Construct 7 mechanic is wrong

[Roeshel]

To be honest, every single explanation of this that I've tried to read only managed to confuse me further. You know, like looking up a definition of a word in the dictionary only to find the definition itself uses 5 more words you don't understand, repeat ad nauseam.

Guess that pretty much explains why I ended up hating math starting from around high school even though prior to that it was my favorite school subject.

All in all, it sure would have helped me out if my teachers had mentioned the whole "number greater than 1" clause when defining a prime number, rather than only stating "number divisible by itself and 1" which I think is how a lot of quick&dirty/introductory explanations of prime numbers go, and is what leaves people to think 1 is a prime. There probably have been many people in this very game who got screwed by this mechanic because they legitimately thought 1 was a prime due to being given an incomplete (or just old, apparently) definition of primes.

"A prime number is divisible by itself and 1" is the simplified version of "A prime number is a whole number with exactly two integral divisors". 1 doesn't have two integral divisors so it can't be a prime number.
Kids at schools are given simplified information because few want to actually learn anything, those who want to learn more usually ask questions and nothing prevents them from acquiring further information which brings clarification.

You can't really blame your teachers for not understanding if they gave you the simplified definition, I asked questions when I wasn't understanding something even if it sounded idiotic to my classmates who always got lower marks than me.

[Jennah]

If it says indivisible...
... how come we can see it?

[Venandi]

If it says indivisible...
... how come we can see it?

No. That's not what indivisible means. Indivisible means if it's an odd number that can only be divided by 1 and itself. 2 is a special case.

[Venandi]

Please delete this post mods. I'm so sick of getting bullied and trolled by people who don't have common sense and I need it to stop.

[Jojoya]

Please delete this post mods. I'm so sick of getting bullied and trolled by people who don't have common sense and I need it to stop.

If you stop posting, it will stop. That's common sense.

[Mikkairi]

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Yeah, the way they teach prime numbers doesn't help. Basically, prime factorization specifically excludes 1 because it muddles the entire process. Which is partially why the entire debate on if 1 is a prime number ended with it getting its own special term. Aside from the fundamental theorem, they'd have to change a bunch of definitions for primes specifically to make special exceptions for 1. It mostly has to do with language than actual math, tbh.

[EmoPanther]

"A prime number (or a prime) is a natural number greater than 1 that is not a product of two smaller natural numbers. A natural number greater than 1 that is not prime is called a composite number. For example, 5 is prime because the only ways of writing it as a product, 1 × 5 or 5 × 1, involve 5 itself. However, 4 is composite because it is a product (2 × 2) in which both numbers are smaller than 4. Primes are central in number theory because of the fundamental theorem of arithmetic: every natural number greater than 1 is either a prime itself or can be factorized as a product of primes that is unique up to their order."

[Curisu]

My reaction when this happened to me was:
"What? 1 is not a prime number. Well you always learn something new."

I then checked later the definition of a prime number because I was curious and I continued my day with a bit more knowledge.

[Vyrerus]

Venandi is bad at math, confirmed.

[Jeeqbit]

1 is divisible by 1, it's just that the result of that division is 1.