A prime number is a natural number greater than 1 that cannot be formed by multiplying two smaller natural numbers. This means that a prime number has exactly two distinct positive divisors: 1 and itself. The uniqueness of prime numbers makes them the building blocks of the integers, as every integer greater than 1 can be expressed as a product of prime numbers, known as its prime factorization.
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