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Re:Rutgers Graduate Student Finds New Prime-Generating Formula by jfarmer on Thursday July 24, 2008 @12:15PM (#255462)
Oh, deep math? Is that all?

How boring.

Re:Rutgers Graduate Student Finds New Prime-Generating Formula by CSchonwald on Thursday July 24, 2008 @03:28PM (#255677)
I'm not sure what you mean, there are several legitimate interpretation that come to mind, but could you elaborate?

do you mean a) in the continuum of math that appears on, its deep, but not in the continuum of research mathematics?

b) calling something nifty deep math being overly simplistic?

c) something I'm missing

Re:Rutgers Graduate Student Finds New Prime-Generating Formula by jfarmer on Thursday July 24, 2008 @04:55PM (#255815)
I was mocking the parent, actually, as if there being "nothing new" computationally somehow made it boring.
Re:Rutgers Graduate Student Finds New Prime-Generating Formula by CSchonwald on Thursday July 24, 2008 @05:00PM (#255821)
Thats fair, but wouldn't it be more constructive to explicitly articulate that?
Re:Rutgers Graduate Student Finds New Prime-Generating Formula by jfarmer on Thursday July 24, 2008 @08:27PM (#256066)
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Re:Rutgers Graduate Student Finds New Prime-Generating Formula by mlinsey on Thursday July 24, 2008 @07:19PM (#255986)
Not really.