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Re:The Prime Lexicon: A list of English words that are prime... by ralphb on Friday October 30, 2009 @01:52AM (#911594)
My personal favourite:

PRIMETEST

But the list is surprisingly long, so not that surpring that something concerning primes would be in there.

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Re:The Prime Lexicon: A list of English words that are prime... by yuan on Friday October 30, 2009 @04:10AM (#911700)
More interesting is what isn't there: so prime is not prime.
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Re:The Prime Lexicon: A list of English words that are prime... by ubernostrum on Friday October 30, 2009 @08:17AM (#911889)
See also: Richardian numbers.
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Re:The Prime Lexicon: A list of English words that are prime... by nrr on Friday October 30, 2009 @02:37AM (#911638)
FERMAT is also one. :)
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