Re: prime numbers and African artifact

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In article <3ue05a$9gi@ccnet3.ccnet.com>,
Charles Brenner <cbrenner@ccnet.com> wrote:
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>I was told that DH Lehmer advocated calling 1 a prime.

Wrong. It was his father, D. N. Lehmer. He published a table of prime
numbers and included 1 as a prime.

D. H. Lehmer would not have done something so stupid.

>Charles Brenner

Jeffrey Shallit, Computer Science, University of Waterloo,
Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3G1 Canada shallit@graceland.uwaterloo.ca
URL = http://math.uwaterloo.ca/~shallit/

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