Re: prime numbers and Af
Ed Haynes (ed.haynes@grape.net)
Sat, 15 Jul 1995 11:51:00 -0700
A cheerful Michael told ALL on 07-10-95 19:39
MH>On a related topic, the binary system has the interesting property that
MH>all numbers which end in 1 are prime: 001, 011, 101, 111, ...
MH>You can really interest your computer genius friends with this fact. (
MH>fibon!)
You got my interest (not that I'm a genius nor a friend). However, did you
mean that all primes in binary end in 1? All "numbers" which end in 1 are
not primes: 1001, 1111, etc.
I missed the first part of this thread. What does it have to do with
anthropology?
Ed
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