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  • P pbraun

    You seem to be the only one who read and understood the question.

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    Fernando A Gomez F
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    I believe I understood it as well*. See, the thing is that if you consider it, you are creating an unstable logical system, which will lead you to contradictions. And therefore you'll be able to deduce whaterver you want, say, that the moon is made of cheese. Therefore considering such scenario is simply not worthy, from the logical point of view. Unless your comment was intended as a joke, in which case you should have selected the joke/game icon. * Of course, since it's almost midnight here and I already drank like eight beers and my thoughts are becoming senseless, there are high chances that I didn't understand you in the first place. In such case, would you care to explain?

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      I believe I understood it as well*. See, the thing is that if you consider it, you are creating an unstable logical system, which will lead you to contradictions. And therefore you'll be able to deduce whaterver you want, say, that the moon is made of cheese. Therefore considering such scenario is simply not worthy, from the logical point of view. Unless your comment was intended as a joke, in which case you should have selected the joke/game icon. * Of course, since it's almost midnight here and I already drank like eight beers and my thoughts are becoming senseless, there are high chances that I didn't understand you in the first place. In such case, would you care to explain?

      A polar bear is a bear whose coordinates has been changed in terms of sine and cosine. Quanehsti Pah Nation States

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      He gave an answer that indicated that he didn't need or want to think about the answer to the question or give a long logically precise explanation. I am assuming his reasoning to be that he found the lack of logic in the question.

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      • P pbraun

        If you consider all prime numbers to be odd, would you then consider the number 2 to be odd?

        Phil

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        peterchen
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        Yes, 2 is odd because it is the only even prime.


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        • P pbraun

          If you consider all prime numbers to be odd, would you then consider the number 2 to be odd?

          Phil

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          R Giskard Reventlov
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          A touch eccentric perhaps but odd? No.

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          • J Justin Jones 0

            pbraun wrote:

            If you consider all prime numbers to be odd, would you then consider the number 2 to be odd?

            I don't believe that the definition of a prime number requires it to be odd. The definition of a prime number is that it only has two factors, 1 and itself. Two is the only even number that fits that definition since all other even numbers have two as a factor. Please correct me if I'm wrong. I'm not a mathmatician. -------------------------------- Of course reading a litte further into the replies now that point has been made several times over, hasn't it ;P

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            no it doesn't, so yes, 2 is a prime


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            • F Fernando A Gomez F

              No. Not every prime number is odd.

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              Dario Solera
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              Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:

              No. Not every prime number is odd.

              All except 2.

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              • P peterchen

                Yes, 2 is odd because it is the only even prime.


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                Jorgen Sigvardsson
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                • P pbraun

                  If you consider all prime numbers to be odd, would you then consider the number 2 to be odd?

                  Phil

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                  Your original premise is obviously wrong.

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                  • P pbraun

                    If you consider all prime numbers to be odd, would you then consider the number 2 to be odd?

                    Phil

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                    Ashley van Gerven
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                    I consider all people who consider all prime numbers to be odd in need of better education. ;P

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                    • P pbraun

                      If you consider all prime numbers to be odd, would you then consider the number 2 to be odd?

                      Phil

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                      • D Dario Solera

                        Fernando A. Gomez F. wrote:

                        No. Not every prime number is odd.

                        All except 2.

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                        Exactly. Thus, not every prime number is odd. Did I miss something here?

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                        • P pbraun

                          If you consider all prime numbers to be odd, would you then consider the number 2 to be odd?

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                          PIEBALDconsult
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                          As written, yes, but if you change it to: " If you consider only odd numbers may be prime, would you then consider the number 2 to be odd? " Then, no, I would consider 2 to be non-prime. Look at it this way... I know 2 is the only even prime, so when I write a Sieve of Eratosthenes program I don't consider any even numbers, and therefore 2 does not appear in my sieve!

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                          • J Jorgen Sigvardsson

                            Have you checked them all?

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                            peterchen
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                            yeah, I was drunk around googol, but the rest should be on the safe side.


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                            • P peterchen

                              Yes, 2 is odd because it is the only even prime.


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                              Fernando A Gomez F
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                              :doh: Now I feel like a stupid...

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                              • P Paul Conrad

                                The Math/Algorithm Forum has been around for a while now. I think about a year and a half or so...

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                                Blake Miller
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                                Okay, now this is really funny. When someone says 'every day you learn something new', I think it means they learn something new to them every day. Just because a forum has been there for a year does not mean they knew about it. Nor does it seem to imply they meant the forum was new either. We have had DNA for quite awhile now, but as a civilization, its discovery is relatively new. But anyway, all in good fun!

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                                • B Blake Miller

                                  Okay, now this is really funny. When someone says 'every day you learn something new', I think it means they learn something new to them every day. Just because a forum has been there for a year does not mean they knew about it. Nor does it seem to imply they meant the forum was new either. We have had DNA for quite awhile now, but as a civilization, its discovery is relatively new. But anyway, all in good fun!

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                                  Paul Conrad
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                                  Blake Miller wrote:

                                  We have had DNA for quite awhile now, but as a civilization, its discovery is relatively new.

                                  Good point.

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