Why should I switch to Python? - Infinity of Primes

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 04-Apr-00 Gordon McMillan wrote:
 >  Oh, come on. There are at least 3 well known constructive 
 >  proofs that all odd numbers are prime:
 >  
 >  The mathematician's:
 >   3 is prime,
 >   5 is prime,
 >   7 is prime
 >   as so on, by induction.
 >  
 >  The physicist's:
 >   3 is prime,
 >   5 is prime,
 >   7 is prime,
 >   9 is prime <experimental error>
 >   11 is prime...
 >  
 >  The computer scientist's:
 >   3 is prime,
 >   3 is prime,
 >   3 is prime ....

The last one was new to me. But I miss the following one:

The engineer's:
 3 is prime,
 5 is prime,
 7 is prime,
 9 is prime ...

For-yers-ugo-I-coultnt-evun-spel-injunjeer-an-now-I-are-one-ly y'rs

/Mikael

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