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Composite numbers are numbers greater than 1 that are not____.

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prime is the answer
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A composite number is a positive integer. which is not prime (i.e., which has factors other than 1 and itself). The first few composite numbers (sometimes called "composites" for short) are 4, 6, 8, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 16, ... (OEIS A002808), whose prime decompositions are summarized in the following table.

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