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To: cripplecreek

Yes, but it’s also a prime number.


12 posted on 01/24/2008 2:55:31 PM PST by LilAngel (FReeping on a cell phone is like making Christmas dinner in an Easy Bake Oven)
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To: LilAngel

Two is the only even prime number. Isn’t that odd??


22 posted on 01/24/2008 2:58:48 PM PST by Ed Condon (Wanted, newer tag line in good condition.)
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To: LilAngel

Okay...since no one else is willing to stoop low enough to say it, I will...shouldn’t we be discussing...sub-prime numbers?


42 posted on 01/24/2008 3:09:05 PM PST by Sudetenland (Mike Huckabee=Bill Clinton. Can we afford another Clinton in the White House...from either party?)
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To: LilAngel

All odd numbers are prime. Proof by exhaustion: 3, 5, 7... all. (Ok, so I’m an engineer not a mathematician.)


84 posted on 01/25/2008 2:36:23 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Being an idealist excuses nothing. Hitler was an idealist.)
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To: LilAngel; Sudetenland; Ed Condon

Can you prove (without looking on the web) that there is no last prime number? Euclid had a very simply proof, which I discovered on my own when I was in grammar school.


88 posted on 01/25/2008 4:55:02 AM PST by Lonesome in Massachussets (Being an idealist excuses nothing. Hitler was an idealist.)
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