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Wed, 05 November 2003 13:52

donjon

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Hi People,

Something to tie you over til next week:

Old man Winters was a quirky professor at our university, he was always coming up with strange notions.

One day he was talking to me and mentioned P'primes, I thinking he was stuttering, politely listened while he started listing the numbers 3.. 5.. 7.. and then I interrupted and asked what happened to two? He said "No, two is not a P'prime because it does not resonate properly, and, besides its even and no even number rightfully should ever claim to be a prime, let alone a P'prime."

He said he liked P'primes because it was a very sparse set, easily remembered, between 0 and 1000 there are only a dozen.

Realizing now, that he certainly was not talking about the set of primes since there was over a dozen between 0 and 50, I asked what the "P" was for and he said "Palindromic primes," he commenced listing the numbers again: "3, 5, 7, 17, 31, 73, 107, 127, 257, 443, 827... that's all there is between zero and a thousand... one dozen, nice and tidy."

I thought, and then said, "Hmmm, I count only eleven."

He paused and then said: "Yes, you are right, I missed one. How forgetful of me."

Which P'prime number was missed?
Rolling Eyes

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		P'prime By: donjon on Wed, 05 November 2003 13:52
		Re: P'prime By: BlueTurbit on Wed, 05 November 2003 14:31
		Re: P'prime By: donjon on Wed, 05 November 2003 15:18
		Re: P'prime By: Ron on Wed, 05 November 2003 15:55
		Re: P'prime By: donjon on Wed, 05 November 2003 16:09
		Re: P'prime By: BlueTurbit on Wed, 05 November 2003 16:58
		Re: P'prime By: Hatterson on Wed, 05 November 2003 18:21
		Re: P'prime By: donjon on Wed, 05 November 2003 21:48
		Re: P'prime By: gible on Fri, 07 November 2003 05:03
		Re: P'prime By: mazda on Fri, 07 November 2003 05:18
		Re: P'prime By: donjon on Fri, 07 November 2003 10:55
		Re: P'prime By: mazda on Wed, 05 November 2003 18:22
		Re: P'prime By: mazda on Wed, 05 November 2003 18:27
		Re: P'prime By: Hatterson on Wed, 05 November 2003 18:36
		Re: P'prime By: zoid on Fri, 07 November 2003 02:45
		Re: P'prime By: freakyboy on Fri, 07 November 2003 13:53
		Re: P'prime By: BlueTurbit on Fri, 07 November 2003 10:56
		Re: P'prime By: mazda on Fri, 07 November 2003 11:21
		P'Palindromic Primes By: donjon on Mon, 10 November 2003 10:29
		Re: P'Palindromic Primes By: mazda on Mon, 10 November 2003 11:08
		Re: P'Palindromic Primes By: gible on Tue, 11 November 2003 01:55
		Re: P'Palindromic Primes By: Sotek on Mon, 29 December 2003 05:05
		Re: P'prime By: zoid on Tue, 03 February 2004 04:24
		Re: P'prime By: Hatterson on Wed, 04 February 2004 22:26
		Re: P'prime By: gible on Wed, 04 February 2004 23:48
		Re: P'prime By: Sotek on Thu, 05 February 2004 03:28
		Re: P'prime By: icebird on Wed, 04 February 2004 23:47

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