how can primes numbers be primes in any base?

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If you change the prime number 13 to base 7 you get 16. How can 16 be a prime number? Is it that 16 base 7 is a prime number in base 7 math? Can you give an example of how this could be true?

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Changing the base doesn’t change the number, just how it’s expressed. 13 is 13 no mater how you write it out.

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