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    21st April 2017, 2:43 PM (This post was last modified: 23rd April 2017, 4:42 PM by A Black Falcon.)
    It is kind of amusing that "W" is usually written as "Double V" not "Double U", yeah... but V is a letter that had been in the alphabet since Roman times, while U and W both were added much later. Apparently it was only in the 1300s when U and V were separated into two letters instead of V being used for both. J was separated out of I even later. W comes from Germanic roots instead of the Latin roots of V/U and yes, was originally written as VV or uu, but for some reason whoever named it in English was thinking of U when they did so; the two-Us spelling was used sometimes, not only two-Vs, so it makes some sense. Some other languages do call it "double v" though, such as Spanish and others ("doble ve").


    As for the topic subject, I think I've heard that 1 is not considered prime. It is a little weird, though, since it meets most all the requirements of being prime... looking it up on Wikipedia though, 1 is now called a "unit" number. Alright.
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    1 is no longer a prime number - by Dark Jaguar - 11th April 2017, 7:37 AM
    1 is no longer a prime number - by Sacred Jellybean - 17th April 2017, 6:35 PM
    1 is no longer a prime number - by Dark Jaguar - 17th April 2017, 11:19 PM
    1 is no longer a prime number - by Dark Jaguar - 19th April 2017, 8:43 AM
    1 is no longer a prime number - by A Black Falcon - 21st April 2017, 2:43 PM
    1 is no longer a prime number - by Dark Jaguar - 21st April 2017, 7:11 PM
    1 is no longer a prime number - by Weltall - 22nd April 2017, 2:55 AM
    1 is no longer a prime number - by Sacred Jellybean - 23rd April 2017, 8:30 AM
    1 is no longer a prime number - by A Black Falcon - 23rd April 2017, 4:49 PM
    1 is no longer a prime number - by Dark Jaguar - 23rd April 2017, 8:37 PM
    1 is no longer a prime number - by Dark Jaguar - 26th April 2017, 6:46 AM
    1 is no longer a prime number - by Sacred Jellybean - 29th April 2017, 1:02 PM
    1 is no longer a prime number - by Sacred Jellybean - 29th April 2017, 1:04 PM

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