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Re: prime numbers and African artifact
Matthew Rabuzzi (rabuzzi@patch.tandem.com)
11 Jul 1995 21:17:05 GMT
Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan <dmckiern@weber.ucsd.edu> wrote:
: Yes, but the =whole= numbers, by virtue of the bran that they
: contain, involve a lot of friction, and can often give at least the
: appearance of dividing evenly a number with a small fractional part.
: What happens, of course, is that the small fraction part is ground
: up by and with the bran. It gets swept of the desk with the eraser
: crumbs, no one the wiser.
=== News Flash! ===
Mathematicians have announced the existence of a new whole number which lies
between 27 and 28. "We don't know why it's there or what it does," says
Cambridge mathematician Dr. Hilliard Halliard, "we only know that it doesn't
behave properly when put into equations, and that it is divisible by six,
though only once."
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Matthew Rabuzzi
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