A Fortiori/Examples/Prime Number
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Example of Use of A Fortiori
The following is an example of a fortiori reasoning:
- The number $11$ is a prime number.
- Hence $11$ a fortiori is not divisible by $5$.
Sources
- 1989: Ephraim J. Borowski and Jonathan M. Borwein: Dictionary of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): a fortiori
- 2014: Christopher Clapham and James Nicholson: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (5th ed.) ... (previous) ... (next): a fortiori