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by Renaud 1026 days ago
Whether 1 should be a prime number or not wasn't clear-cut for centuries.

Current consensus has settled on excluding 1 from the definition, but there are examples of publications well into the 20th century that still included 1 as prime.

Fascinating read about the subject: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1209.2007.pdf