This theorem says that every positive number (except 1) is either a prime number or can be written uniquely as a product of prime numbers. (i.e.,) we can always break a positive integer into prime factors.

Euclid gave an almost complete proof over 2000 years ago.

2PRIME
3PRIME
42 X 2
5PRIME
62 X 3
7PRIME
82 X 2 X 2
93 X 3
102 X 5

Carl Friedrich Gauss was the first who provided the first proof in 1801.

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