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To: donh
We conclude that all prime numbers are odd, for example, even though no human has laid eyes on the largest prime number that could exist.

2 is a prime.

1,834 posted on 05/29/2005 5:43:31 PM PDT by VadeRetro ( Liberalism is a cancer on society. Creationism is a cancer on conservatism.)
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To: VadeRetro
2 is a prime.

ok, all primes above 2.

1,836 posted on 05/29/2005 6:01:07 PM PDT by donh
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To: VadeRetro
2 is a prime.

Don't get me started ...

1,840 posted on 05/29/2005 6:35:13 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas. The List-O-Links is at my homepage.)
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To: VadeRetro
2 is a prime.

Yes, but it's the only even prime, and that's odd.

1,861 posted on 05/29/2005 8:02:03 PM PDT by Doctor Stochastic (Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
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To: VadeRetro
Two is the oddest prime!
1,881 posted on 05/29/2005 10:24:11 PM PDT by si tacuissem (.. lurker mansissem)
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