Re: Chez Watt: Prime Idiocy

In article <1152160859.431972.49460@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"topmind" <topmind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mark VandeWettering wrote:
On 2006-07-04, topmind <topmind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For now lets use a binary representation and map it to base 4. First
make a list of the first 500 prime numbers:

A: 1, 3, 7, 11, 13, 17, 29 .....

I can now understand why you haven't attempted any math in support of your
assertions.

I was going to save it til later when I could write it up nice and
clean, but you kept pressuring on that point, so I slopped it out. I
figured criticism for slop was better than criticism for ommission. As
they say in the software business, "if you really want it badly, that
is what you get". There is a disclaimer that the lists are only
illustrations and not real values somewhere around that, which was
conviniently snipped by you. Trying to make another mountain out of a
mole hill? Mole hills are all you have, I guess.


Mark

-T-

My dear twit,
If you are so "sloppy" that you can make a list of the first (few!)
primes including 1 and excluding 2 and 5, you set yourself up for
mockery. And for essentially zero consideration of anything you are
floundering around trying to say in such "slop". Advice: don't _use_
"primes" if you haven't got a clue what you are talking about. That
same advice seems to generalize to a _lot_ of stuff you want to talk
about, with apparently equal ignorance.

.

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