Example of a primary ideal that it's not prime

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in the course of Algebra I studied the primary ideals, an ideals $I$ of a commutative ring with identy is called primary if $ab \in I$ and $a\notin I$ implies that $ \exists n \in \mathbb{Z}$ such that $b^n \in I$. It is evident that prime implies primary, I'm looking for an example that shows that the opposite is not true.

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Hint:

$p\cdot p\in\langle p^2\rangle$

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This is the graphic at wikipedia's prime ideal page currently. I thought it also appeared on the primary ideal page, but it looks like it doesn't:

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Any patterns present themselves? You might try proving a conjecture...