To: FourtySeven
What's with the 47? I thought that 42 was the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.
53 posted on
03/29/2005 9:22:45 AM PST by
.38sw
To: .38sw
Hee, hee. It is, it is, indeed.
57 posted on
03/29/2005 9:24:25 AM PST by
Finger Monkey
(H.R. 25, Fair Tax Act - do the research, contact your legislators, get this puppy passed.)
To: .38sw
What's with the 47? I thought that 42 was the answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything.New math. :)
To: .38sw
Yes, but what is the question?
1,042 posted on
03/29/2005 5:02:10 PM PST by
Doohickey
("This is a hard and dirty war, but when it's over, nothing will ever be too difficult again.”)
To: .38sw; FourtySeven
47 is an interesting number in it's on right. You can generate a sequence of primes by starting with 2, then multiplying each number by 2 and adding 1. 47 is the last prime in this sequence before you produce a composite number
Here's the sequence:
2,5,11,23,47
The next number is 95, which is a composite. (The proof of which is left as an exercise).
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