List #004 - The First 100 Prime Numbers

One of the first websites I visited regularly on the Internet was The Prime Pages (http://primes.utm.edu/). The website was created and maintained by Professor Chris Caldwell at the University of Tennessee at Martin. The Prime Pages has everything one needs to know about prime numbers: definition of prime numbers, why certain numbers are prime or not prime, types of prime numbers, trivia, and much more. (Plus, you can join the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search to discover new record prime numbers.)

So what are prime numbers? Prime numbers are whole numbers (0, 1, 2, 3,...) that have only two factors: 1 and the number itself. Factors of a number are whole numbers that divide into the number evenly. For example, the factors of 12 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12; while the factors of 7 are only 1 and 7. In this case, 7 is prime and 12 is not prime (the latter being a composite number for having more than two factors).

A couple millenia ago, the mathematician Euclid proved there were infinitely many prime numbers. The website has several lists of primes, including the first thousand primes and Top 20 lists (http://primes.utm.edu/lists/). For this post, here is a list of the first 100 prime numbers.

2	3	5	7	11	13	17	19	23	29
31	37	41	43	47	53	59	61	67	71
73	79	83	89	97	101	103	107	109	113
127	131	137	139	149	151	157	163	167	173
179	181	191	193	197	199	211	223	227	229
233	239	241	251	257	263	269	271	277	281
283	293	307	311	313	317	331	337	347	349
353	359	367	373	379	383	389	397	401	409
419	421	431	433	439	443	449	457	461	463
467	479	487	491	499	503	509	521	523	541
547	557	563	569	571	577	587	593	599	601
607	613	617	619	631	641	643	647	653	659
661	673	677	683	691	701	709	719	727	733
739	743	751	757	761	769	773	787	797	809
811	821	823	827	829	839	853	857	859	863
877	881	883	887	907	911	919	929	937	941
947	953	967	971	977	983	991	997	1,009	1,013
1,019	1,021	1,031	1,033	1,039	1,049	1,051	1,061	1,063	1,069
1,087	1,091	1,093	1,097	1,103	1,109	1,117	1,123	1,129	1,151
1,153	1,163	1,171	1,181	1,187	1,193	1,201	1,213	1,217	1,223