Re: Am I a crank?

On 30 Aug 2006 02:43:00 -0700, schoenfeld.one@xxxxxxxxx wrote:


Proginoskes wrote:
schoenfeld.one@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Han de Bruijn wrote:
[...]
Or is it just mathematics? In the latter case, computing a large prime
is also mathematics, because it could be done - in principle - by hand.
(What else does computer science add except more speed and more space.)

Then there is no experiementation. Mathematics is not an experimental
science, it is not even a science. The principle of falsifiability does
not apply.

Written by someone who has not done any math research.

One of many examples: Try dividing 2^n by n and keeping track of the
remainders. You won't get 1; you get 2 a lot, but you never seem to get
a 3. So you conjecture:

CONJECTURE: The remainder of 2^n divided by n is never 3.

However, this conjecture is false; in particular, the remainder of 2^n
divided by n is 3 if n = 4,700,063,497 (but for no smaller n's).

Hello Crackpot.

Crackpot=disagreer. Quite mathematical.

~v~~
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