Re: prime numbers and African artifact

Ariel Scolnicov (ariels@pita.cs.huji.ac.il)
19 Jul 1995 18:10:18 GMT

In article <mikem-1707951101100001@ou226008.otago.ac.nz> mikem@atlas.otago.ac.nz (Michael J Mayo) writes:

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From: mikem@atlas.otago.ac.nz (Michael J Mayo)
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 11:01:10 +1200
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[... much discussion removed...]
For Your Information...

1,4,9,16,36... are the sequence of SQUARES OF NATURAL NUMBERS

1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34... is the FIBONNACCI SEQUENCE

2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,27... is the sequence of PRIMES!

Didn't you guys learn that at school?

Mike.

I don't get it. How can 13 be both PRIME and FIBONNACCI?! Is this what
is meant by "twin prime"??

On a related note -- is 1 the only number which is TWICE a FIBONNACCI
number?

At least I managed to understand one thing -- 27 is definitely a prime
(it can't be represented with balanced trits unless we use zeros).