# Can Anyone Spot the Error? **URL:** \ **Category:** random\ **Created:** [September 10, 2004, 2:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806 "2004-09-10T02:38:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/21 "2004-09-10T14:02:55Z")
oups sorry. I’m reading the way I am driving: poorly but fast ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 2:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/22 "2004-09-10T14:27:50Z")
[spoiler=isn’t it obvious?]Nine is not a prime number ya bozos![/spoiler] 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/23 "2004-09-10T14:48:25Z")
[spoiler=here’s the REAL answer!]He’s not really Prussian!!![/spoiler] :!: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 2:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/24 "2004-09-10T14:48:48Z")
[spoiler=intro text]answer[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 2:50pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/25 "2004-09-10T14:50:44Z")
[spoiler=intro text]9 isnt so prime[/spoiler] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 2:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/26 "2004-09-10T14:57:43Z")
lol @ Thierro 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 4:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/27 "2004-09-10T16:27:09Z")
I’ve had math in English in school but since English is not my native language I’ve forgotten what a prime number is… You see what I’m gettin at?.. No? Ok. :sigh: What the hell is a prime number?! 😱 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/28 "2004-09-10T16:29:09Z")
I had to explain this to the boyfriend last night. :sure: A prime number is a number that is only divisible by 1 and itself. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 4:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/29 "2004-09-10T16:30:22Z")
Right 🙂 Thanx hifi 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/30 "2004-09-10T16:38:44Z")
> [@hificopymaster](#): > > Look at me! I have master in my name! :crazy: Shhhhh! 😉 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 4:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/31 "2004-09-10T16:44:48Z")
Gah! Sorry! I deleted that part, you may want to edit your post to get rid of the quote too. :trout: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/32 "2004-09-10T16:48:08Z")
btw.: is anyone else here who cannot accept that a zero vector is called vektor? it has no direction, no position change, it’s just a dot. I demand either to add 1 to the primenumbers or to expel the zerovektor from the vektors. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/33 "2004-09-10T16:53:36Z")
The zero vector is not just a vector, it’s a SUPER vector, because it has any direction you want. Anyway, it has to be a vector or else it would screw up physics. You have to be able to move 0 metres in any given direction. I don’t know why, but I’m sure it’s true. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/34 "2004-09-10T16:59:40Z")
then I demand adding 1 to prime numbers. It’s dividable through 1 and itself ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 5:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/35 "2004-09-10T17:03:13Z")
If you consider 1 to be prime, the Unique Factorization Theorem breaks. Any positive integer can be written uniquely as the product of primes. That is, 20 = 2 \* 2 \* 5. If you include one, then you also have 20 = 1 \* 2 \* 2 \* 5 and 20 = 1 \* 1 \* 1 \* 1 \* 1 \* 2 \* 2 \* 5 and so on. Mathematicians like rules and such. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/36 "2004-09-10T17:40:45Z")
> [@McGiver](#): > > edit: slow me, I just read the other spoilers… but is the guy who stated that an idiot or what 😛 The Boston Globe issued a correction on the next issue stating that they were incorrect 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/37 "2004-09-10T17:48:44Z")
> [@kirupa](#): > > The Boston Globe issued a correction on the next issue stating that they were incorrect 🙂 They read our posts! :love: :sure: ---
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> [@El\_Thierro](#): > > They read our posts! :love: > > :sure: The article was written in 1995 btw 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2004, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-anyone-spot-the-error/63806/39 "2004-09-10T17:56:41Z")
> [@kirupa](#): > > The article was written in 1995 btw 🙂 …trough a time machine! :cool: ---
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