Math problem

suburbian
Thu, 13 Jan 2005 23:15:57 +0000

Whoops, totally missed the “product” part! That would change everything.
But yeah, last year at school, I saw a video about the world’s greatest mathematical puzzles, and this problem was presented as one of them! I assumed the video was made recently, but I guess not. And someone else was actually talking to me about this prime number question this spring (not at school), and I remember thinking that it made sense. Then, when I (mis)read these posts and after I made my post, I was thinking how what the other person said to me and what tsunashima and some others said seemed really similar and why I didn’t catch the mistake in the spring… anyway, I’m babbling. I tend to do that!

Also, response to “My teacher was an International Math Olympiad gold medalist”: haha, my teacher was a self-described average student in high school and often likes to say that he doesn’t want to be “too intellectual.”