Product of Primes
Any Integer can be thought of as a product of multiplying a collection of Prime Numbers. Although, not the most natural way to think of numbers, it does make many math operations easy to visualize... as simple as a card game of Go Fish!
Prime Numbers
A Prime Number is an Integer that can only be evenly divided by 1 or itself. Prime Numbers:
2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97 →
Product of Primes
1
=
1
2
=
2
3
=
3
4
= 2 · 2
5
=
5
6
= 2 · 3
7
=
7
8
= 2 · 2 · 2
9
= 3 · 3
10
= 2 · 5
11
=
11
12
= 2 · 2 · 3
13
=
13
14
= 2 · 7
15
= 3 · 5
16
= 2 · 2 · 2 · 2
17
=
17
18
= 2 · 3 · 3
19
=
19
20
= 2 · 2 · 5
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Prime "Viral" Creation
The prime number line can be recreated with a virus-like algorithm that creates prime objects who each count through their own value. Primes have no collisions with the previously created numbers.
Watch our visualization of this cyclical nature, in a slightly different way, in our sections
Factors and
Prime Factors.