Primality of 1 Was: Seriously disagreement
Alonso Del Arte
alonso.delarte at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 00:41:50 CEST 2008
> I would not believe _any_ result of someone who thinks that 1 is prime....
> ...
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
That might tantamount to age discrimination. As late as the 1940s in
America (and perhaps as late as the 1980s in less industrially
developed countries) children were taught that 1 is a prime number.
The OEIS has always acknowledged this, with A008578.
Al
Dear Seqfans,
Root Mean Square (1, 3, ... , 2*K-1) = C (C,K positive integers)
gives a nice Pell-like equation :
4*K*K - 3*C*C = 1
Solutions :
K = 1 , C = 1
K = 13 , C = 15
K = 181 , C = 209
Are there other solutions ?
Thanks for comments,
Ctibor
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