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Is the number 1 prime, composite, neither

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Prime because 1x1 is the only thing that equals 1
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Neither. It is not composite nor prime. The definition of a prime number is a number greater than one that has no positive divisors. "1" has many factorization, etc, and therefore is neither.
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