Can a complex number be prime?
Can a complex number be prime?
Nicholas Phillips
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Chase Campbell
Most assuredly. In particular, the prime numbers, being complex, furnish an example of this.
Jacob Cox
By complex I meant imaginary
Ryan Price
Imaginary integers are isomorphic to integers so it could be a yes.
But what would be the point?
Grayson Campbell
>prime numbers are complex
Samuel Wood
Couldnt it be useful to cryptography
William Brooks
Spotted the underclassmen undergrads.
Charles Roberts
Sure. I mean can't any normal real normal be written in complex notation where the number of imaginaries is simply 0?
Adrian Kelly
Gaussian Integers
Jonathan Thomas
Gaussian primes are the complex analogous to ordinary primes.
a+ib is prime if there are no integers c, d, e, f other than 1, a and b for (c+di)(e+fi)=a+bi, I think. Look it up.