Re: cube the movie

From: mark griffith (contact_at_otherlanguages.org)
Date: 07/29/04 

Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2004 11:39:06 +0000 (UTC)

On 28 Jul 2004, Richard Henry wrote:
>
>"mark griffith" <contact@otherlanguages.org> wrote in message

>>
>> I was dragged along to see 'Cube' too.
>>
>> I also recall blinking at some plot detail to do with the numbers on the
>little metal plates at each trapdoor: doesn't the clever girl talk about
>prime numbers at one point and then decide later she had mistaken prime
>numbers for squares of prime numbers? Something like that.
>
>Maybe. But what square of a prime number is even, other than 4?
>
>

Quite.

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