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Re:Mathematicians find a new class of digitally delicate primes by gkop on Friday April 02, 2021 @01:48AM (#26669283)
Saving other non-math people like me a web search explaining this: https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/roots-of-unity/the-funn...
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Re:Mathematicians find a new class of digitally delicate primes by HoverSausage on Friday April 02, 2021 @06:28AM (#26670327)
I actually ran into this once not as a joke. I was using some software which had an option that would change the default base it used for all numbers. After typing <command> 16 and fiddling about in hexadecimal I tried switching back to decimal using <command> 10, yet I was still in hex mode. It took me a few more seconds than it should for me to realise what had happened.
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Re:Mathematicians find a new class of digitally delicate primes by rfurmani on Sunday April 04, 2021 @03:32AM (#26687584)
It must be the command-line calculator bc
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Re:Mathematicians find a new class of digitally delicate primes by HoverSausage on Sunday April 04, 2021 @09:31AM (#26689252)
That's possible, it was a long time ago and I can't remember for sure
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