Re: prime numbers and African artifact

Michael Hyman (mikeh@netaxs.com)
11 Jul 1995 02:39:13 GMT

Rick Hawkins (rhawkins@iastate.edu) wrote:
: >> Prime numbers are those numbers which can NOT be divided evenly by
: >> another whole number... 1, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31...

: >Hurrah!
: But only half- credit, since it's the wrong answer. 1 is not prime.

On a related topic, the binary system has the interesting property that
all numbers which end in 1 are prime: 001, 011, 101, 111, ...

You can really interest your computer genius friends with this fact. (No
fibon!)

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  - Mike  (mikeh@netaxs.com)