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{{Short description|Integer number 2}} {{Hatnote|This article is about the number. For the years, see [[2 BC]] and [[AD 2]]. For other uses, see [[2 (disambiguation)]], [[II (disambiguation)]], and [[Number Two (disambiguation)]].}} {{pp-vandalism|small=yes}} {{Infobox number |number=2 |ordinal=2nd (second) |numeral=[[binary numeral system|binary]] |gaussian integer factorization = <math>(1 + i)(1 - i)</math> |prime=1st |divisor=1, 2 |roman =II, ii |greek prefix=[[Wiktionary:di-|di-]] |latin prefix=[[Wiktionary:duo-|duo-]]/[[Wiktionary:bi-|bi-]] |old english prefix=[[Wiktionary:twi-|twi-]] |lang1=[[Greek numeral]] |lang1 symbol=β' |lang2=[[Eastern Arabic numerals|Arabic]], [[Central Kurdish|Kurdish]], [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Sindhi language|Sindhi]], [[Urdu numerals|Urdu]] |lang2 symbol={{resize|150%|٢}} |lang3=[[Ge'ez alphabet|Ge'ez]] |lang3 symbol=፪ |lang4=[[Bengali numerals|Bengali]] |lang4 symbol={{resize|150%|২}} |lang5=[[Chinese numeral]] |lang5 symbol=二,弍,貳 |lang6=[[Devanāgarī]] |lang6 symbol={{resize|150%|२}} |lang7=[[Santali language|Santali]] |lang7 symbol={{resize|150%|᱒}} |lang8=[[Indian numerals#Telugu numerals and their names|Telugu]] |lang9=[[Tamil numerals|Tamil]] |lang9 symbol={{resize|150%|௨}} |lang10=[[Kannada numerals|Kannada]] |lang10 symbol={{resize|150%|೨}} |lang11=[[Hebrew numerals|Hebrew]] |lang11 symbol={{resize|150%|ב}} |lang12=[[Armenian numerals|Armenian]]|lang12 symbol=Բ|lang13=[[Khmer numerals|Khmer]] |lang13 symbol=២ |lang14=[[Maya numerals]]|lang14 symbol=••|lang15=[[Thai numerals|Thai]] |lang15 symbol=๒ |lang16=[[Georgian numerals|Georgian]] |lang16 symbol={{resize|130%| Ⴁ/ⴁ/ბ}}([[Bani (letter)|Bani]]) |lang17=[[Malayalam numerals|Malayalam]] |lang17 symbol=൨ |lang18=[[Babylonian cuneiform numerals|Babylonian numeral]]|lang18 symbol=𒐖|lang19=[[Egyptian numerals|Egyptian hieroglyph]], [[Aegean numerals|Aegean numeral]], [[counting rods|Chinese counting rod]]|lang19 symbol={{!}}{{!}}|lang20=[[Morse code]]|lang20 symbol={{resize|150%|.._ _ _}}}} '''2''' ('''two''') is a [[number]], [[numeral (linguistics)|numeral]] and [[numerical digit|digit]]. It is the [[natural number]] following [[1]] and preceding [[3]]. It is the smallest and the only even [[prime number]]. Because it forms the basis of a [[Dualistic cosmology|duality]], it has [[Religion|religious]] and [[Spirituality|spiritual]] significance in many [[Culture|cultures]].
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