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skeough15
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Homework Statement
Use the well-ordering principle to show that every number greater than
1 is either a prime itself, or is the product of prime numbers.
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The Attempt at a Solution
I am sure this question isn't all that hard, I just don't have any idea what the well-ordering principle is. I know it's something to do with a smallest such number in a set... but I don't know how that would help here. If I assume that this is a set of numbers.. then the set S must have a smallest number. I don't know how that helps me in this case though.