| ChrisRickard on Apr 6, 2004 at 9:41:36 AM (# 2495) A bad prime goes to bed without dessert. MHenke on Apr 7, 2004 at 2:03:36 AM (# 2496) This message has been edited.If it's a really bad prime it even goes to bed w/o supper.
BTW, although there not that much information about the nasty ones among our indecomposable friends, it seems that there are no primes that are unmitigated bad. AFAI could investigate there are some ill-bred primes out there with some unpropitious properties for some special kinds of calculations (e.g. WRT elliptic curves, polynomial decomposition and other funny stuff...). Furthermore, intermediate primes ("out of sequence" ) in the search for consecutive primes in arithmetic progression are called "bad".
On balance, it's not overly disturbing, after all we all have our foibles, havn't we?
Oh, and the IT ranks 13 in the google search for "bad primes", maybe better after this posting... =] BikeRepairman on Apr 8, 2004 at 9:00:56 AM (# 2497)I don't see much happening here lately. @Mhenke: can you translate that part to people who aren't mathematical educated?
MHenke on Apr 8, 2004 at 9:17:40 AM (# 2498)Why certainly!
If a prime is bad, that is, it behaves very ill-bred, it's maybe a good idea (for reasons of education) to put this prime to bed without giving it anything for dinner. RobinAnn on Apr 10, 2004 at 6:44:52 PM (# 2499) This message has been edited.I am enjoying the thought of Bad Primes. I did not know they existed until today. I envision them wearing black leather jackets and kicking over barrells and flexing thier big bad prime muscles in muscle-shirts.
And I think the best case scenerio to get a Bad Prime in the IT is one of the "inconsecutives."
I do not think I would like to compute that. Actually I do think I would like to compute that - I will have to quit my life to do that though. BikeRepairman on Apr 11, 2004 at 8:39:39 AM (# 2500)Anyone seen the Easter bunny? any bunny? I only got two eggs RobinAnn on Apr 11, 2004 at 7:15:10 PM (# 2501) This message has been edited. () ()
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