8 Jan
2007
8 Jan
'07
12:45 p.m.
Phil Carmody wrote:
http://people.brandeis.edu/~kleber/temp/deletable.html """ Question: Why do prime bases (in red) seem to have many fewer deletable primes than composite bases? """
A much simpler, in fact trivial, question is: Why do odd bases seem to have many fewer deletable primes than even ones?
You're right, that does look like the right question to ask. When you say this is a trivial question, do you mean you know an answer, or just that it is easier to ask? --Michael Kleber -- It is very dark and after 2000. If you continue you are likely to be eaten by a bleen.