26 May
2004
26 May
'04
10:09 a.m.
=Hilarie Orman why would you recommend number theory as a source for a non-genuine (or quasi?) mystical experience?
Number theory is the epitome of genuine mystical experiences. Consider for instance the alchemical genesis of primality from the unending additive dross of the base integers.
=Thane Plambeck (quotes) "The prime number prevents mating between two broods and hybridization,''
No doubt preventing broods of lawyers from hybridizing also explains why the term of US Patents was set at 17 years (the Founders were secretly Pythagoreans).