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I'd have to pretty strongly disagree. To me, the "essence" of primes is that you can factor any number into primes in a unique way. That's the most natural definition. They're the multiplicative building blocks of the natural numbers; everything can be reduced to them. If 1 were prime, you could no longer factor uniquely.
Your comment and this comment were adjacent in my message folder which I found amusing.
Thomblake wrote:
It's funny how we do care.
That's awesome. Thanks for sharing.
Possibly related: my comment about paperclips.