Re: prime numbers and African artifact

Jens Stark (root@foobar.hanse.de)
24 Jul 1995 16:23:38 -0000

In <3u6c7k$s9t@infohub.engr.sgi.com> erikw@bat.engr.sgi.com (Erik Wahlstrom) writes:

>254365465431652436514232 IS NOT A PRIME. It's an Even number, End of story.
>Remember the only even PRIME number is 2.

Come on ! 2 being a prime ? Only because it is too small ! There should be
no even prime ! But anyhow...

Starting from 3.15926.... with 3 as position 0 and 1 as postition 1,
every substring which starts at position n*n and ends at position n*n*n*n
is a prime if n is prime ! <smile>

Jens

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