I had a thought...

[whiteninja]

Forge is right-- I think whiteninja meant to say that 1 is 'not counted as a prime number', (1 will always be an odd number).

No, "I said what I said and I meant what I meant, an elephant's faithful 100%." (quote ~ Dr. Seuss)

I was always taught one is prime but not odd...

An even power of any number is positive

An even power of any number needs not be even:
e.g. 5^2=25 (25 is odd), but any integer power of an even number is even.

There, I did mean to say something different though. *goes to edit*