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| ``Re: Negative primes (seeking comment)''
by alozano on 2005-10-19 09:46:03 |
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| I would leave the definition as it is, i.e. prime numbers are positive. The reason is the one mathcam pointed out, if we allow negative primes, then the unique factorization theorem is akward to state.
alvaro |
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