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A comment on Fox News: "Prime numbers have very little mathematical significance".

Re:Fox News: "Prime numbers have very little mathematical si... by TomGullen on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @07:23AM (#5175998)
Misquote in title. Actual quote reads:

"Though there is little mathematical value to finding a single new prime"

Which to me is a perfectly reasonable sentence.

Edit: Doh sorry, everyone is right later in the article it says a stupid

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Re:Fox News: "Prime numbers have very little mathematical si... by ZeroGravitas on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @07:25AM (#5176007)
It says also says later: "Prime numbers, which are divisible only by themselves and one, have little mathematical importance."

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/05/worlds-largest-pri...

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Re:Fox News: "Prime numbers have very little mathematical si... by werrett on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @07:27AM (#5176010)
Nope. If you read two paragraphs further:

>Prime numbers, which are divisible only by themselves and one, have little mathematical importance. Yet the oddities have long fascinated amateur and professional mathematicians.

Admittedly, getting through a full Fox News article is no fun.

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Re:Fox News: "Prime numbers have very little mathematical si... by hagios on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @07:27AM (#5176013)
Later quote from the article reads:

"Prime numbers, which are divisible only by themselves and one, have little mathematical importance. Yet the oddities have long fascinated amateur and professional mathematicians."

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