Sunday, January 02, 2005
Quote of the Day #5
Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
-- Mark Haddon/"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
-- Mark Haddon/"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time"
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Speaking of maths, do you know that Fermat's Last Theorem (x^n + y^n = z^n has no solutions for n>2, and n is a whole number) was recently solved? It was the longest unsolved mathematical problem in history, until some guy called Andrew Wiles cracked it in 1993. The proof is well over a 1000 pages long.
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