A composite number is a positive integer that has at least one positive divisor other than one or the number itself. In other words, a composite number is any positive integer greater than one that is not a prime number. So, if n > 0 is an integer and there are integers 1 < a, b < n such that n = a × b, then n is composite. By definition, every i...
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(from the article `arithmetic`) ...1 is a divisor of every positive integer. If can be expressed as a product in which and are positive integers each greater than 1, then is ... ...greater than 1, or an algebraic expression, that has only two factors (i.e., itself and 1) is termed prime; a positive integer or an algebraic ... [2...
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A positive integer that can be factored into smaller positive integers, neither of which is one. If a positive integer is not composite (4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, ...) or one, then it is a prime number (2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, ...). As Karl Gauss put it in his Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801): 'The prob...
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In mathematics, a composite number is one which can be divided exactly by a number exceeding unity, as 6 by 2 or 3.
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A natural number that is not prime. See also: Natural Number, Prime Numbers.
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A whole number that has more than two factors
Example:
Composite Numbers Not Composite Numbers
Number Factors Number Factors
4 1, 2, 4 1 1
6 1, 2, 3, 6 2 1, 2
8 1, 2, 4, 8 3 1, 3
9 1, 3, 9 5 1, 5
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noun an integer that is divisible without remainder by at least one positive integer other than itself and one
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a number that is a multiple of at least two numbers other than itself and 1.
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a number with at least one other factor besides itself and one, i.e. not a prime number
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A positive integer with at least one factor aside from its own. Composite numbers cannot be prime because they can be divided exactly.
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