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Does having prime neighbors make you more composite?
Babylonian accountants and land surveyors did their arithmetic in base 60, presumably because sexagesimal numbers help with wrangling fractions. When you organize things in groups of 60, you can divide them into halves, thirds, fourths, fifths, sixths, tenths, twelfths, fifteenths, twentieths, thirtieths, and…
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| Nov 5, 2021 | Does having prime neighbors make you more composite? by another | 147 | 43 |
