On 29 August 2014 11:32, Simon King <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi John,
>
> On 2014-08-29, John Cremona <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 1 is definitely not a prime power.
>
> OEIS says it is: http://oeis.org/A000961
>

... and the very first comment there says "Since 1 = p^0 does not have a
well defined prime base p, it is sometimes not regarded as a prime power."


>
> > It's basically the same reason that 1
> > is not a prime.
>
> It's basically the same reason that the empty product evaluates to 1.
>

No! No! No!  please don't let Sage match OEIS here!

John


>
> Best regards,
> Simon
>
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