Prime Curios!: 1151

1151
(another Prime Pages' Curiosity)

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In the 13th century, Persian mathematician Kamal al-Din Abu'l Hasan Muhammad ibn al-Hasan al-Farisi used a number of lemmas including an application of the Sieve of Eratosthenes to show that 1151 is prime.

Western explorers discovered that the Molucca Islands (also called the Spice Islands) are the source of cloves.

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