Re: prime numbers and African artifact

Daniel Kian Mc Kiernan (dmckiern@weber.ucsd.edu)
Sun, 16 Jul 1995 19:22:52 -0700

On 14 Jul 1995, David Ullrich wrote:

> Hard to tell what's a joke in some threads. Just in case this
> isn't, yes, 1 is does have a unique prime factorization, it's the
> product of no primes at all.

(No joke on my part, although I'm not at all sure how to =prove= that
it wasn't a joke. :)

That's cute. (I'm not being facetious here.) But it's tantamount to
declaring a dead hand to be a hand.

It's always Dark. Light only hides the Darkness.

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