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            <title>Re: 2 simple? questions and proposed answers</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7655658&amp;tstart=0#7655658</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[Please, see a good and extensive discussion on the (-a)(-b) = ab issue in Mazur?s delightful book Imagining Numbers (a to-the-point summary of the]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Jan 29, 2012 7:50:41 AM</jf:creationDate>
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            <jf:author>KHO@statoil.com</jf:author>
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            <title>Re: 2 simple? questions and proposed answers</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7641268&amp;tstart=0#7641268</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[Dear Kent,<br><br>I agree with our friend from Bahrain; the way I phrase it for my students (whose proficiency levels vary quite widely) is that a]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Jan 9, 2012 4:21:04 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: 2 simple? questions and proposed answers</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7639831&amp;tstart=0#7639831</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[Question #1 -<br>It could be how prime is defined ... it is generally taught that prime numbers are those that can be divided by 1 and itself.  I]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Jan 7, 2012 3:46:23 AM</jf:creationDate>
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            <title>Re: 2 simple? questions and proposed answers</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7639691&amp;tstart=0#7639691</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[In a sense the business about 1 being a prime is a matter of convention (yes, it does make it easier to state some theorems). So, I would say people]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Jan 6, 2012 3:47:48 PM</jf:creationDate>
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            <jf:author>ewall@umich.edu</jf:author>
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            <title>2 simple? questions and proposed answers</title>
        
            <link>http://mathforum.org/kb/thread.jspa?messageID=7639372&amp;tstart=0#7639372</link>

        

            <description><![CDATA[I often get the following two questions from my non-mathematician friends.<br><br>Q1: Why is 1 not a prime? (It divides only 1 and]]></description>

        

            <jf:creationDate>Jan 6, 2012 10:27:14 AM</jf:creationDate>
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