Smallest composite number
Number Theory
Level
1
True or false?
The smallest composite number is 4.
True
False
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1 solution
For those of you who answered False, you probably thought 1 was a composite number. 1 is neither a prime nor composite number. A composite number must have at least 1 factor other than 1 and itself.