Well, the only prime numbers that I can think of immediately would be 31 and 37 so I am going with 37! Do I win? I was 37 before, it's a pretty good age but how did he land a 26 year old wife? B4T
Is it a perfect number? I know it is a prime time of life for him..By the time Euclid's Elements appeared in about 300 BC, several important results about primes had been proved. In Book IX of the Elements, Euclid proves that there are infinitely many prime numbers. This is one of the first proofs known which uses the method of contradiction to establish a result. Euclid also gives a proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic: Every integer can be written as a product of primes in an essentially unique way.
Euclid also showed that if the number 2n - 1 is prime then the number 2n-1(2n - 1) is a perfect number. The mathematician Euler (much later in 1747) was able to show that all even perfect numbers are of this form. It is not known to this day whether there are any odd perfect numbers.
In about 200 BC the Greek Eratosthenes devised an algorithm for calculating primes called the Sieve of Eratosthenes.
There is then a long gap in the history of prime numbers during what is usually called the Dark Ages.
So if he is indeed 30 something, and it is a prime number, that would make it odd and therefore not perfect!!!I Must be off...
8 Comments:
is it a prime number?
By Swinging Sammy, at 12:51 PM
Of Course!!
By Four-Leaf K' lover, at 1:04 PM
Well, the only prime numbers that I can think of immediately would be 31 and 37 so I am going with 37! Do I win? I was 37 before, it's a pretty good age but how did he land a 26 year old wife? B4T
By Doug E. Pudge, at 6:52 AM
I refuse to celebrate until I get that second number!
(Is it 9?)
By Russell, at 7:26 AM
Is it a perfect number? I know it is a prime time of life for him..By the time Euclid's Elements appeared in about 300 BC, several important results about primes had been proved. In Book IX of the Elements, Euclid proves that there are infinitely many prime numbers. This is one of the first proofs known which uses the method of contradiction to establish a result. Euclid also gives a proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic: Every integer can be written as a product of primes in an essentially unique way.
Euclid also showed that if the number 2n - 1 is prime then the number 2n-1(2n - 1) is a perfect number. The mathematician Euler (much later in 1747) was able to show that all even perfect numbers are of this form. It is not known to this day whether there are any odd perfect numbers.
In about 200 BC the Greek Eratosthenes devised an algorithm for calculating primes called the Sieve of Eratosthenes.
There is then a long gap in the history of prime numbers during what is usually called the Dark Ages.
So if he is indeed 30 something, and it is a prime number, that would make it odd and therefore not perfect!!!I Must be off...
By where's jim?, at 8:27 AM
Happy Birthday, regardless of the number!
Hope you have a great day!!
By Jay, at 5:52 PM
Happy 31st or thirty something birthday
By Kodiak, at 4:49 PM
Wow is he OLD! :)
Paul
By Special_K, at 6:30 AM
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