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25 Apr 2008, 9:33 am

Thats true Wolphin, But when it comes to things like e-mail messages-how do you define Sqrt(5) messages? Or ANY non-integer quantity of such??



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25 Apr 2008, 11:20 am

Sophie Germain rules *nods*


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25 Apr 2008, 11:57 am

I believe that this thread is supposed to be about prime numbers..

My favourites are 9, 99 and 999.


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25 Apr 2008, 12:24 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
I believe that this thread is supposed to be about prime numbers..

My favourites are 9, 99 and 999.


You do realize those numbers are NOT prime though CockneyRebel :P



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26 Apr 2008, 3:03 am

D1nk0 wrote:
Thats true Wolphin, But when it comes to things like e-mail messages-how do you define Sqrt(5) messages? Or ANY non-integer quantity of such??


That's the beauty, how often do you come across sqrt(5) in daily life? You can't possibly have a email message with sqrt(5) characters in it.

That way, you don't have to deal with primes as much :)



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26 Apr 2008, 9:32 am

wolphin wrote:
D1nk0 wrote:
Thats true Wolphin, But when it comes to things like e-mail messages-how do you define Sqrt(5) messages? Or ANY non-integer quantity of such??


That's the beauty, how often do you come across sqrt(5) in daily life? You can't possibly have a email message with sqrt(5) characters in it.

That way, you don't have to deal with primes as much :)


BAH! Thats certainly neither here nor there.............. :roll:



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26 Apr 2008, 12:10 pm

Ugh, I know exactly how you feel. I've always felt uncomfortable about prime/odd numbers. For example, my imaginary world has to have an even number of characters organized into pairs. That's the way it's always been. I've tried changing it up a bit (having odd numbers of characters, not putting them in pairs...) but it just doesn't fly with me.