Re: Chez Watt: Prime Idiocy

On 2006-07-06, topmind <topmind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Mark VandeWettering wrote:
On 2006-07-06, 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.

This is just the kind of excuse I expected that you would make.

Mark

You win irrelavent anal-retentive side battles, but I win the real war.
That is all that matters.

Look, if you want to just admit that you can't do basic math, and that
all your reasoning having to do with math is just stuff you are pulling
from your nether regions, then fine, I'll stop pointing out your all too
numerous shortcomings. But if you are going to make arguments about
searching for primes in the genome, but you can make five mistakes in a
listing of the first seven primes, then it is hardly irrelevant to point
out that perhaps you aren't the sharpest pencil in the box when it comes
to mathematical skill.

It doesn't, after all, take much skill to operate a computer made from
bamboo and coconuts.

Mark

-T-

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