lalaithion comments on The dangers of zero and one - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dv82matt 17 November 2013 05:54:50AM * 11 points [-]

But can you be 99.99% confident that 1159 is a prime?

This doesn't affect the thrust of the post but 1159 is not prime. Prime factors are 19 and 61.

Comment author: lalaithion 17 November 2013 05:15:07PM 9 points [-]

That may have, in fact, been the point. I doubt many people bothered to check.

Comment author: PhilGoetz 17 November 2013 07:41:52PM 4 points [-]

Indeed. :)

Comment author: ChrisHallquist 22 November 2013 05:08:21PM -2 points [-]

As soon as I saw that in the post, I began checking it. In my head. Have I mentioned I'm good at math?

Comment author: Fhyve 25 November 2013 08:19:50AM -1 points [-]

That only means you are merely good at arithmetic. Can you prove, say, that there are no perfect squares of the form

3^p + 19(p-1)

where p is prime?