Re: prime numbers and African artifact

Ken Arromdee (arromdee@jyusenkyou.cs.jhu.edu)
12 Jul 1995 21:41:55 -0400

In article <3tso8h$giu@netaxs.com>, Michael Hyman <mikeh@netaxs.com> wrote:
>On a related topic, the binary system has the interesting property that
>all numbers which end in 1 are prime: 001, 011, 101, 111, ...

No, 011 ends in 3, not in 1.

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