Is 1 a prime number?
Posted: 2009.03.03 (22:25)
I was pondering this recently and I was wondering whether it is or isn't. I mean, isn't the definition of a prime number it has do be dividable by only 1 and itself.
There was some comedian I'm too lazy to Google at present who commented on this being a notable difference with religion.blue_tetris wrote:Haha, I like how this ended. Like any mathematical "debate", only two posts are required: the question and the answer. It's math.
Read what Demonz posted. That may be the definition of a prime number that you were taught in fifth grade, but the actual properties common to all other prime numbers do not apply to 1.isaacx wrote:I think it is prime as it follows the rule that
1)Must be divisible by 1
2)Must be divisible by itself
3)Must not be divisible by any numbers other than the ones above
There's always exceptions, i dont think there are in math
I wanna have a dialogue about the consistency of math. Not this prime number shit.Tsukatu wrote:There was some comedian I'm too lazy to Google at present who commented on this being a notable difference with religion.blue_tetris wrote:Haha, I like how this ended. Like any mathematical "debate", only two posts are required: the question and the answer. It's math.
(And for some reason, Dane Cook comes to mind, although it doesn't seem like it'd be him.)
The joke was the equivalent of:
"You can't expect to write such ridiculous stuff and expect people not to be skeptical. It's just too easy to make fun of the Bible, but you never see someone pick up a math book and say, 'it says here the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Haha, is that retarded or what? What was this guy on when he wrote this?'"
Thread re-opened, as the topic has now been hijacked to the consistency of math.
Hay now.blue_tetris wrote:I wanna have a dialogue about the consistency of math. Not this prime number shit.Tsukatu wrote:There was some comedian I'm too lazy to Google at present who commented on this being a notable difference with religion.blue_tetris wrote:Haha, I like how this ended. Like any mathematical "debate", only two posts are required: the question and the answer. It's math.
(And for some reason, Dane Cook comes to mind, although it doesn't seem like it'd be him.)
The joke was the equivalent of:
"You can't expect to write such ridiculous stuff and expect people not to be skeptical. It's just too easy to make fun of the Bible, but you never see someone pick up a math book and say, 'it says here the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. Haha, is that retarded or what? What was this guy on when he wrote this?'"
Thread re-opened, as the topic has now been hijacked to the consistency of math.
The shortest distance between two points is only a line if you're busy sucking on Euclid's short line, if you catch my drift. If you stop worshipping that one geometry dude and think your own shit for once in your goddamn life, you'd realize that you were a fucking retard before and that the shortest distance between two points is based on manifolds and the curvature of the system. That is to say, your mom's juicy manifolds and the curvature of her ass.
That's the one. Thanks!Brocerius wrote:@Tsukatu; Ricky Gervais, i believe.
If memory serves; "A critic said of me 'He mocks the bible. Too easy.' Well, it shouldnt be easy. You cant do that with a math textbook, can you?" and more along those lines.
Lies! The geodesic is a line in many non-Euclidean geometries, though not necessarily a "straight" line, you ignorant redneck. Your pretense that GBLT lines don't exist only serves to further marginalise an unjustifiably persecuted group which has struggled for years to be seen as a legitimate part of the geometric community. By which I mean, part of yo momma's "geometric community". Except for the gay ones, obviously, who will be focusing on yo pappa.blue_tetris wrote:The shortest distance between two points is only a line if you're busy sucking on Euclid's short line, if you catch my drift. If you stop worshipping that one geometry dude and think your own shit for once in your goddamn life, you'd realize that you were a fucking retard before and that the shortest distance between two points is based on manifolds and the curvature of the system. That is to say, your mom's juicy manifolds and the curvature of her ass.
Canberra isn't Australia.squibbles wrote:I think that you will find that prime is actually 7. At least, it is in Australia.
Canberra is not an Australia?SlappyMcGee wrote:Canberra is to Australia what One is to Prime Numbers.
The last is absolutely true.Tsukatu wrote:Canberra is not an Australia?SlappyMcGee wrote:Canberra is to Australia what One is to Prime Numbers.
Canberra is not in the set of Australias?
A given country is Australia if it is composed of Canberra and itself?