http://strix.org.uk/posts/The-first-illegal-prime-number Comments on: The first illegal prime number Thu, 20 Nov 2008 00:18:08 +0000 http://strix.org.uk/ http://strix.org.uk/posts/The-first-illegal-prime-number#c131993455319620737 take a guess (again) Tue, 25 Jul 2006 01:11:44 +0000 http://strix.org.uk/posts/The-first-illegal-prime-number#c131993455319620737 This is an idubitable piece of evidence of rising lunacy in the world. In more ways than one. First off, how, fortheloveofjazzychickens, can abstract entities possibly be recognised by ANY judicial system as illegal? Secondly, this number came into existence on the VERY DAY homo sapiens sapiens devised a numerical system. We didn`t necessarily know it then, but it was available to us, had we had the means to calculate/process/whatever it. In other words, we`re talking about a number as old as (possibly older) than ancient Grecian civilization. We`re allowing history, language and invention to become a legal commodity...wtf? Can someone stop the world? I`d like to get off for a minute. Off to good `ol Wiki to gander at the origins of mathematics now.