# Is one a prime number?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-one-a-prime-number/508827>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 4, 2009, 4:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-one-a-prime-number/508827 "2009-09-04T04:43:40Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-one-a-prime-number/508827/21 "2009-09-09T17:08:40Z")

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> [@](#):
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> The problem is that if you have a parenthesis at the end of a URL, even if it’s not supposed to be part of the URL, it screws up things.

Unless, of course, it _is_ supposed to be part of the URL, in which case it often seems to screw up the other way.

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**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\
**Post date:** [September 9, 2009, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-one-a-prime-number/508827/22 "2009-09-09T17:13:35Z")

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> [@Wendell\_Wagner](#):
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> This should work:
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> [Prime Number -- from Wolfram MathWorld](http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeNumber.html)
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> The problem is that if you have a parenthesis at the end of a URL, even if it’s not supposed to be part of the URL, it screws up things. Indeed, if a link doesn’t work, I would suggest that posters try messing around with things like removing and moving parentheses rather than immediately complaining that it doesn’t work.

Why do you call that a complaint? It seemed more like an observation to me. Stating a fact is not complaining.

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