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**:::That's a good suggestion! I followed your wording more-or-less exactly. [[User:Proteins|Proteins]] ([[User talk:Proteins|talk]]) 02:29, 6 May 2009 (UTC)

**::::I was hesitant to use the word "unrelated", but I couldn't figure out exactly why. Here's why: "unrelated" may imply that the two components, ''a'' and ''b'', are unrelated, which is obviously never the case. "other" makes it clear that the concepts are unrelated to EA without introducing the ambiguity. --'''[[User:Cryptic C62|Cryptic C62]] · [[User talk: Cryptic C62|Talk]]''' 00:57, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

**:::::Just to clarify, the wording now is "although the latter notation is also used for other mathematical concepts, such as two-dimensional vectors." [[User:Proteins|Proteins]] ([[User talk:Proteins|talk]]) 15:52, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

**<s>"neither 6 = 2×3 nor 35 = 5×7 is a prime number, since they both have two prime factors" I think it may be a tad confusing to include the prime factorization at first; perhaps this should be added later: "neither 6 nor 35 is a prime number, since they both have two prime factors: 6 = 2x3 and 35 = 5x7." or something like that.</s> Also, shouldn't it be "neither 6 nor 35 '''are''' prime number'''s'''" ?

**:Excellent suggestion for the rewording. [[User:Proteins|Proteins]] ([[User talk:Proteins|talk]]) 09:59, 4 May 2009 (UTC)