If a number be the least that is measured by any prime numbers, it will not be measured by any other prime number except those originally measuring it.
— Euclid Ancient

Father of geometry

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Theorem 33, Book IX of 'Elements'

Date / Period

c. 300 BCE

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https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/213038/puzzling-euclid-quote

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