# Primes

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/primes/671296>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 15, 2013, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/primes/671296 "2013-10-15T10:42:00Z")\
**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:** [October 16, 2013, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/primes/671296/41 "2013-10-16T14:01:40Z")

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And I’m saying that in the same way we assumed that the OP meant “primes within the positive integers”, we should also assume that n is meant to be an integer, because relaxing that assumption leads nowhere interesting.

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**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\
**Post date:** [October 16, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/primes/671296/42 "2013-10-16T18:02:11Z")

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Yeah, I basically agree with that. (Not that it couldn’t be interesting to explore what happens for rational n, if you like, but it’s certainly not what the OP had in mind…)

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