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#1 2007-06-22 05:34:58
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Primes
Post the next prime lets see how high we can get.
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#2 2007-06-22 05:50:56
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That's not so much a "puzzle" as it is an "exercise in patience", to see who here is actually willing to take the time to continuously post numbers in a thread that could eventually get hundreds of pages long... ;-)
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#3 2007-06-22 05:59:57
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Re: Primes
yes it is just a time waster really there is no section for that
in the past i have only got to about 200 so i want to see how high we can get here
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#4 2007-06-22 06:49:15
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Why dont we make it more interesting by counting in as many languages as we can? As in this thread:
http://z8.invisionfree.com/DYK/index.php?showtopic=296
3 تین (Urdu)
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#5 2007-06-22 06:50:03
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cinco.
"In the real world, this would be a problem. But in mathematics, we can just define a place where this problem doesn't exist. So we'll go ahead and do that now..."
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#6 2007-06-22 07:01:52
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if we r going to do that can we post the numeral and what language
7- سبعة, سبع arabic
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#7 2007-06-22 07:08:47
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Elf.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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#8 2007-06-22 07:22:00
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#9 2007-06-22 07:51:45
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#10 2007-06-22 08:58:41
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can we please post the number in numerals
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#11 2007-06-22 09:05:24
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Three-and-twenty.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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#12 2007-06-22 09:35:39
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29 hai mươi chín (Vietnamese}
Last edited by JaneFairfax (2007-06-22 09:36:12)
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#13 2007-06-22 18:59:42
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XXXI
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#14 2007-06-22 19:09:49
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37 now we can at least read each other
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#15 2007-06-22 19:45:35
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41 wieħed u erbgħin (Maltese}
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#16 2007-06-22 20:08:27
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#17 2007-06-22 20:52:34
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47 - 四十七 (Chinese)
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#18 2007-06-22 21:33:14
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#19 2007-06-22 22:26:03
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59 ... 7919
Sorry, just wanted to make the game harder. 
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#20 2007-06-22 22:27:07
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7927... 104729
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#21 2007-06-22 22:36:48
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104743 hundrað og fjórir þúsund sjö hundruð fjörutíu og þrír (Icelandic)
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#22 2007-06-23 01:01:27
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104759
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#23 2007-06-23 02:22:33
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104761 ... 213043
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#24 2007-06-23 03:14:31
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213067
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#25 2007-06-23 03:20:31
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213079...213989
The Beginning Of All Things To End.
The End Of All Things To Come.
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