Prime numbers don't follow a pattern, but rather a trend. |
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Last edited by A Roxxor; 10-25-2008 at 09:51 PM.
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Last edited by A Roxxor; 10-25-2008 at 09:51 PM.
Whee 'x' is any prime number >13: |
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It sure is an effective way of listing all prime numbers. |
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There is no largest prime... |
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Xaqaria
The planet Earth exhibits all of these properties and therefore can be considered alive and its own single organism by the scientific definition.does the planet Earth reproduce, well no unless you count the moon.7. Reproduction: The ability to produce new organisms.
Internet says there's an online mersene prime project which has found the last 11 primes using an online supercomputer. Not sure about the prize if they're doing it that regularly... |
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There's some million dollar prize to find a definite formula, (or prove proposed formulas using calculas,) which could find all primes without needing additional information. |
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Paul is Dead
It's distributed computing, and the prize was for finding the first 10 million digit prime number. The next prize is for the first to find a 100 million digit prime. http://www.mersenne.org/prime.htm |
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Last edited by Forsaken; 10-26-2008 at 11:30 AM.
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Xaqaria
The planet Earth exhibits all of these properties and therefore can be considered alive and its own single organism by the scientific definition.does the planet Earth reproduce, well no unless you count the moon.7. Reproduction: The ability to produce new organisms.
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Paul is Dead
I don't have an elitist... |
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Alright, maybe your not elitist. But that comment kind of was. |
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Paul is Dead
Yeah, I understand that much. Did you just make the calculus bit up though? |
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You need a refresher. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula |
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