I stopped reading when it said "Most early Greeks did not even consider 1 to be a number". Who cares if people 2000 years ago didn't think 1 is a prime number?? It is a prime number today.Obvious trolling aside, the whole debate on whether or not 1 is a prime is pretty interesting.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prim...imality_of_one
If you want to understand why 1 isn't considered a prime number, you can easily look into it.
The TL;DR is that 1 breaks the fundamental theorem of arithmetic and 1 would specifically have to be excluded. Mathematicians have debated 1 as a prime for centuries, came to the conclusion it is not, and 1 is more or less considered the foundation to counting instead.
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