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Primes

Usage

Primes represents the domain of prime numbers, as in x  Primes.


Notes

x  Primes evaluates only if x is a numeric quantity.
Simplify[expr  Primes] can be used to try to determine whether an expression corresponds to a prime number.
• The domain of primes is taken to be a subset of the domain of integers.
PrimeQ[expr] returns False unless expr explicitly has head Integer.
Primes is output in TraditionalForm as  .
• See also: Element, Simplify, PrimeQ, Prime, Integers.
• New in Version 4.


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