Re: Erin Marie Sorenson - August 5th 1985

From: Kelsey Bjarnason (kelseyb_at_xxnospamyy.lightspeed.bc.ca)
Date: 10/28/03 

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 16:23:27 -0800

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On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 13:31:05 -0500, Sefton wrote:

> "The central mathematical puzzles are absurd. The math major chick
> sweats and grunts to figure out if numbers ending in 5 and even
> numbers, for instance, are prime. (Prime numbers being those divisible
> only by themselves and one, for those not keeping track of such things
> since high school.) Uh...duh, they're not. Anything ending in 5 is
> divisible by 5, and no even number can be prime.

Thus, neither 5 nor 2 are prime. Hmm. Not sure many math geeks would
agree. :)