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by NiloCK 693 days ago
I've been fascinated by this question since I learned the sieve of eratosthenes as a kid. The meta logic of it is so simple:

Primes are specifically the numbers that are left over after the structured numbers (composite) ones are removed.

Everything - [structured numbers] = [ chaos? the abyss? some meta structure? ]