Hypothesis: All Odd Numbers Greater Than One are Prime.

My twisted mind ^ | January 18, 2011 | Vanity

[Fresh Wind]

Engineer: 2.000

[ichabod1]

I’m not sure, I hear they changed the zodiac dates.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Not in my newspaper.

[aNYCguy]

Nitpicking Freeper: All Odd Numbers Greater Than [OR EQUAL TO] One are Prime.

One is not a prime. There, fixed your fix.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Software Engineer:

float x = 2.000;

x = sqrt(float(4))

if Not(x = 2.000)
destroy.Centrifuge;
end

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

One is not a prime.

That is soooo judgmental. I'll bet you're a Taurus.

[Joe 6-pack]

Pre-DADT joke:

On the first day of basic training, the drill sergeant put his traumatized recruits into something of a platoon formation and directed the soldiers to count off. From somewhere in the third or fourth rank, he heard a soldier with a very effeminate voice drag out a long "oooooone" before the rest of the soldiers down the rank loudly and quickly barked out, "2, 3, 4, etc." Incensed at the apparent lack of motivation, the drill sergeant stormed over to the first file, eyed the apparent offender up and down and snarled, "Are you 'One'"?

The recruit lisped back with girlish grin, "Why yeth, thergeant. Are you one, too?"

[bvw]

Smooth!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Not so smooth

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

You went to basic with Bawney Fwank?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Wonder how big those get....LOL?

[PuzzledInTX]

Working with a lot of mathematicians, you must be particularly lonesome in MA. ;-) I know I am.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

No, they are mostly very good guys and girls. Sure, they made a mistakes when they were young and in college, but they haven’t let ruin their lives.

[devere]

No, just a straight review from a tough critic.

[sportutegrl]

I’d let in 1 before 2. Two isn’t even odd.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In number theory, the fundamental theorem of arithmetic (or the unique-prime-factorization theorem) states that any integer greater than 1 can be written as a unique product (up to ordering of the factors) of prime numbers.

We need two to take care to those pesky even numbers. If you let one in, then the factorization is not unique, since you can add as many factors of one as you please.

Frinstance: 6936 = 2^3 x 3^1 x 17^2 = 1 x 2^3 x 3^1 x 17^2 = 1^2 x 2^3 x 3^1 x 17^2 = 1^3 x 2^3 x 3^1 x 17^2