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#1 2007-06-22 05:34:58

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Primes

Post the next prime lets see how high we can get.

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#2 2007-06-22 05:50:56

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That's not so much a "puzzle" as it is an "exercise in patience", to see who here is actually willing to take the time to continuously post numbers in a thread that could eventually get hundreds of pages long... ;-)

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#3 2007-06-22 05:59:57

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yes it is just a time waster really there is no section for that
in the past i have only got to about 200 so i want to see how high we can get here

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#4 2007-06-22 06:49:15

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Why don’t we make it more interesting by counting in as many languages as we can? As in this thread:
http://z8.invisionfree.com/DYK/index.php?showtopic=296

3 – تین (Urdu)

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#5 2007-06-22 06:50:03

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cinco.


"In the real world, this would be a problem.  But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist.  So we'll go ahead and do that now..."

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#6 2007-06-22 07:01:52

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if we r going to do that can we post the numeral and what language
7- سبعة, سبع  arabic

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#7 2007-06-22 07:08:47

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Re: Primes

Elf.


Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.

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#8 2007-06-22 07:22:00

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13

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#9 2007-06-22 07:51:45

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siebzehn

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#10 2007-06-22 08:58:41

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Re: Primes

can we please post the number in numerals
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#11 2007-06-22 09:05:24

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Three-and-twenty.


Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.

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#12 2007-06-22 09:35:39

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29 – hai mươi chín (Vietnamese}

Last edited by JaneFairfax (2007-06-22 09:36:12)

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#13 2007-06-22 18:59:42

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XXXI

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#14 2007-06-22 19:09:49

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37 now we can at least read each other

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#15 2007-06-22 19:45:35

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41 – wieħed u erbgħin (Maltese}

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#16 2007-06-22 20:08:27

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43

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#17 2007-06-22 20:52:34

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47 - 四十七 (Chinese)

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#18 2007-06-22 21:33:14

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53

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#19 2007-06-22 22:26:03

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59 ... 7919

Sorry, just wanted to make the game harder. smile

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#20 2007-06-22 22:27:07

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7927... 104729

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#21 2007-06-22 22:36:48

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104743 – hundrað og fjórir þúsund sjö hundruð fjörutíu og þrír (Icelandic)

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#22 2007-06-23 01:01:27

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104759

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#23 2007-06-23 02:22:33

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104761 ...  213043

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#24 2007-06-23 03:14:31

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Re: Primes

213067

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#25 2007-06-23 03:20:31

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Re: Primes

213079...213989


The Beginning Of All Things To End.
The End Of All Things To Come.

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