[Sussex] Just for the record....

Nik Butler nik at wired4life.org
Sat Mar 1 10:14:00 UTC 2003


On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 09:44:40AM +0000, Nik Butler wrote:
> > And, to answer the question "why is one not prime", the basic answer is
> > "there's a whole bunch of general properties that prime numbers have, and
> > one doesn't have them :-)"
> uh oh, can I have proof please
Just in case you need some shortcuts lets start with
http://www2.cddc.vt.edu/eff/awards/prime-info.html


and suprise , suprise who do we come back to ?

http://primes.utm.edu/glossary/page.php?sort=MersenneNumber


See I told you he was influential in the development of Computer
history!


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