All odd numbers are prime: 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is experimental error, 11 is prime, and so on, I don’t have funding to check all of them, but it suggests an avenue of productive further work.
Look, just because it breaks everything, that’s no reason not to include it in a joke. We’ll just have to rebuild the entire edifice of mathematics.
Seriously, thanks for the link, I hadn’t considered the implications of including 1 in the set of primes, and it really does seem to break a lot of ideas.
All odd numbers are prime: 1 is prime, 3 is prime, 5 is prime, 7 is prime, 9 is experimental error, 11 is prime, and so on, I don’t have funding to check all of them, but it suggests an avenue of productive further work.
Them’s fightin’ words.
Look, just because it breaks everything, that’s no reason not to include it in a joke. We’ll just have to rebuild the entire edifice of mathematics.
Seriously, thanks for the link, I hadn’t considered the implications of including 1 in the set of primes, and it really does seem to break a lot of ideas.