Re: Heard at the IETF

[Steven M. Bellovin]

In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Llo
yd Wood writes:
>On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Jon Crowcroft wrote:
>
>> o course, if we were to internationalise the elevator ights, we';d
>> have to syubtract 1 (as we count from zero, not 1) and then they'd all
>> be even numbers....unless of course one of them was the one even
>> prime...
>
>Probability suggests a short elevator shaft.
>
>In the US the ground floor is the first floor. So '1' is
>very likely to be lit.
>
>We want reports of people starting arguments about how 1 isn't prime.

And of course, security folks want the buildings to be O(2^1024) floors 
high, so that we can see some *useful* primes...

                --Steve Bellovin