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Is there a high-concept explanation for why characteristic 2 is special?

There are so many results on primes that either fail for $p=2$ or are not known to be true for $p=2.$ Can anyone give some kind of intuition as to why this is the case?

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Is there a high-concept explanation for why characteristic 2 is special?

There are so many results on primes that either fail for $p=2$ or are not known to be true for $p=2.$ Can anyone give some kind of intuition as to why this is the case?

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Is there a high-concept explanation for why characteristic 2 is special?

There are so many results on primes that either fail for $p=2$ or are not known to be true for $p=2.$ Can anyone give some kind of intuition as to why this is the case?

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Is there a high-concept explanation for why characteristic 2 is special?

There are so many results on primes that either fail for $p=2$ or are not known to be true for $p=2.$ Can anyone give some kind of intuition as to why this is the case?

There are so many results on primes that either fail for $p=2$ or are not known to be true for $p=2.$ Can anyone give some kind of intuition as to why this is the case?

Possible Duplicate:
Is there a high-concept explanation for why characteristic 2 is special?

There are so many results on primes that either fail for $p=2$ or are not known to be true for $p=2.$ Can anyone give some kind of intuition as to why this is the case?