I asked the in-house mathematician about this. When he began, "Well,
it depends on how you define 'prime' . . ." I knew it was an ambiguous
case.
PMcC
On Dec 10, 2011, at 5:12 PM, Marcos wrote:
On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 2:17 AM, Russell Standish <[email protected]
> wrote:
Has one ever been prime? Never in my lifetime...
Primes start at 2 in my world. There was mathematician doing a talk
once, and before he started talking, he checked his microphone:
"Testing...., testing, 2, 3, 5, 7"
That's how I remember.
Mark
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