Things I learnt yesterday.....

[Olly]

I read that as Brazil nuts are full of semen. Which I suppose is correct also.

insufficient credit given....hehehe...spilt my wine...bugger

[AlfredJPruffock]

Ponos, the ancient Greeks' word for work, actually meant "pain".

There you go - could be a good name for a startup recruitment agency.

The fashionable move is, of course, to mock the office.


The office lends us an identity: we only need to look at our business cards to confirm that we are (let's say) a marketing unit senior manager rather than a vaporous transient consciousness in an incidental universe.

How satisfying it is to be held in check by the assumptions of colleagues, instead of being forced to contemplate, in the loneliness of 3am, all that one might have been and now never can be.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Flora extra light contains Pork Fat

Margarine naturally appears white or almost white: by forbidding the addition of artificial coloring agents, legislators found that they could keep margarine from being bought.

Bans on coloration became commonplace around the world and endured for almost 100 years.

It did not become legal to sell colored margarine in Australia, for example, until the 1960s.

[Pogle]

If you muliply a bunch of prime numbers together and then add 1 the resulting number will also be a prime number.

[AlfredJPruffock]

After Russia and the USA - Canada was the third country to endter the Space Sector and launched a satelllite Sep 1962.

Alouette-1 measured electron density distribution a problem for radio communications in the Northen Hemisphere.

Designed for a one year mission it went on to perform for ten years.

[Pinto]

If you muliply a bunch of prime numbers together and then add 1 the resulting number will also be a prime number.

ok, let's have a go...How many in a bunch?? Let's say 4.

3 * 7 * 11 * 13 = 3003 + 1 = 3004

[DaveB]

If you muliply a bunch of prime numbers together and then add 1 the resulting number will also be a prime number.

Not true, otherwise finding very large primes would not be as complicated as it is.

Hmmmm, just noticed the date this was posted on......

[Pogle]

According to the maths proff on Horizon,
If you multiply prime numbers in order from 1 ( so 1,2,3,5,7, etc..) and add 1 the resulting number will be a prime number.
And if thats wrong dont blame me, blame Euclid! or Horizon or blame my hard of understanding brain

[DaveB]

According to the maths proff on Horizon,
If you multiply prime numbers in order from 1 ( so 1,2,3,5,7, etc..) and add 1 the resulting number will be a prime number.
And if thats wrong dont blame me, blame Euclid! or Horizon or blame my hard of understanding brain

2*3*5*7*11*13 = 30,031 which is divisible by 59 and 509.

I sat here and tried to write a meaningfull explanation of the thoerem behind it but it's been so long since I had anything to do with maths like this I can't remember in enough detail to avoid being shot down in flames by those who do

I didn't see it but what I think the program was getting at is that multiplying known primes and adding 1 is part of the proof that there are an infinite number of primes, not that the results will always be prime.

[Pogle]

2*3*5*7*11*13 = 30,031 which is divisible by 59 and 509.

I sat here and tried to write a meaningfull explanation of the thoerem behind it but it's been so long since I had anything to do with maths like this I can't remember in enough detail to avoid being shot down in flames by those who do

I didn't see it but what I think the program was getting at is that multiplying known primes and adding 1 is part of the proof that there are an infinite number of primes, not that the results will always be prime.

I think that may be so - well at least it gave you something to think about for a bit