• TFk (unregistered) in reply to apaq11

    I think you'll find that all 16 of those prime numbers need to be odd...

  • (cs)

    To put an end to the UK or Australia argument I can safely say that it is Australia. Victoria Station ( www.victoriastation.com.au ) is a chain in Australia that sells luggage and handbags and suchlike. And yes, the French Connection in Australia is abbreviated to FCUK.

    And finally, the store is called Warringah Mall in Brookvale NSW.

    http://www.warringah.activemarket.com.au/media/?1542

    If you look at the key below the map you'll see that Victoria Station is at H12 and FCUK are at I12.

    Jesus Christ I must have been bored to research that.

  • mauhiz (unregistered) in reply to apaq11

    Easy enough if you are in base 60. Otherwise I guess you would have to input some digit more than once...

  • (cs) in reply to TFk
    TFk:
    I think you'll find that all 16 of those prime numbers need to be odd...
    One of them doesn't.

    I think it's a Mechanical Turk prime number generator. Why waste good cycles when people will find the numbers for you. The unique qualifier is so they don't have to keep paying out for the same numbers.

  • (cs)

    Eric of the intergalactic shipping receipt. I'm like half a block from your recipient ACI in Markham. 80 Micro Court. I don't know why I find this coincidence so cool.

  • Brandon (unregistered) in reply to apaq11
    apaq11:
    Please enter a 16 digit prime number? That's pretty excessive. Maybe I can just give it 16 one digit prime numbers and call it even?

    I'm pretty certain you can't have an even prime number.

  • (cs) in reply to rjmx
    rjmx:
    OK, I give up. What does the top logo on the back of the charger mean? That you can bring it into your house, but you can't take it out again?
    Indoor Use Only, just in case you did want to know.
  • gosse (unregistered) in reply to Brandon
    Brandon:
    apaq11:
    Please enter a 16 digit prime number? That's pretty excessive. Maybe I can just give it 16 one digit prime numbers and call it even?

    I'm pretty certain you can't have an even prime number.

    Somebody forgot 2 ;)

  • (cs) in reply to Brandon
    Brandon:
    I'm pretty certain you can't have an even prime number.

    What about 2? It's prime, and even.

  • The Beast in Black (unregistered) in reply to apaq11

    If you called it even, it wouldn't be prime

  • (cs) in reply to krupa
    krupa:

    Recirculated a lot:Vegas, Baby!. This sign is pretty big. It's hard to tell if it's bigger than the mall or not.

    That monitor is only displaying a small portion of the screen. So the full blue-screen is much large, so probably beats the one at the mall.

  • Bob N Freely (unregistered) in reply to apaq11
    apaq11:
    Please enter a 16 digit prime number? That's pretty excessive. Maybe I can just give it 16 one digit prime numbers and call it even?

    Better call it odd. Even numbers can't be prime.

  • Airor (unregistered) in reply to apaq11

    A unique 16 digit prime number? Forget about trying to figure out if it's prime, how can you tell if its never been used before?

  • Jay (unregistered) in reply to DoctorFriday
    DoctorFriday:
    Please enter a unique 16-digit prime number when prompted.
    Where's the WTF? Just enter 4222124650659841 and you're good to go!

    But now I can't use that one! Being you've already used it, it wouldn't be unique any more.

  • Jay (unregistered)

    I'm working on compiling a major new reference book: "An Abridged List of Even Primes".

  • akozakie (unregistered) in reply to apaq11

    and call it... ? Ooo! Ooo! I know which prime you'll enter last!

  • Steve (unregistered) in reply to krupa
    krupa:
    JonC:
    krupa:
    The first bluescreen picture also appears to be from the UK. The sign behind the kiosk says "Ground carpark". In the US, we usually just saying "Parking"

    It's not from the UK, we don't have Myer or Coles (just above the car park sign) over here. Possibly Australian?

    Definitely Australian.

    Myer Store Locator

    Another giveaway is the fact that it says "Toilets" and not "Restrooms", as it would in the US. We're so euphemistic here. . .

  • Hugo (unregistered) in reply to apaq11
    apaq11:
    Please enter a 16 digit prime number? That's pretty excessive. Maybe I can just give it 16 one digit prime numbers and call it even?

    No problem, just make sure you enter 16 DIFFERENT one digit prime numbers.

  • Nick (unregistered)

    16 digit prime number?

    Leading zeros count as digits right?

    0000000000000001

    Done!

  • jday (unregistered) in reply to apaq11

    If you can give it 16 unique, 1-digit prime numbers, you're wasting your time posting here when you could be earning a Field's medal.

  • vindico (unregistered) in reply to Jay

    Well damn! I already know how that one ends!

  • sysKin (unregistered) in reply to apaq11
    Please enter a 16 digit prime number? That's pretty excessive. Maybe I can just give it 16 one digit prime numbers and call it even?
    OK mate, you win. Please enter 16 *unique* one-digit prime numbers. Thank you.
  • DontKnow (unregistered) in reply to apaq11
    apaq11:
    Please enter a 16 digit prime number? That's pretty excessive. Maybe I can just give it 16 one digit prime numbers and call it even?

    Sure. 2372527532572573

    or 3373537533573377

  • Kibatsu (unregistered) in reply to apaq11

    Only if each number is unique.

  • Peter (unregistered) in reply to Ed

    That's easily the most annoying thing I've ever had to read.

  • the amazing null (unregistered)

    is anyone else bothered that the person who wrote the prime number message asked for a unique one?

    as if i will ever give out my personal 16-digit prime. i had to kill a man to have it taken out of the set of natural numbers...

  • rorrison (unregistered) in reply to apaq11

    only if the 16th one-digit prime number is 2.

  • (cs) in reply to apaq11
    apaq11:
    Please enter a 16 digit prime number? That's pretty excessive. Maybe I can just give it 16 one digit prime numbers and call it even?

    Only if you choose '2' for the 16th digit.

  • (cs) in reply to Brandon
    Brandon:
    I'm pretty certain you can't have an even prime number.
    Bob N Freely:
    Better call it odd. Even numbers can't be prime.

    Wow. It took me half a day to convince my fifth grade teacher that even numbers (well, one even number) can be prime, so I guess I shouldn't be surprised...

  • (cs) in reply to my_math_is_not_well
    my_math_is_not_well:
    DoctorFriday:
    Please enter a unique 16-digit prime number when prompted.
    Where's the WTF? Just enter 4222124650659841 and you're good to go!

    I have no idea what a unique prime is, but wikipedia says there's only one with 16 digits.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_prime

    Which makes it even more WTF-y. I mean, why prompt for it when there's only one valid input?

    Actually, it looks like the best interview question ever, to judge by the slew of comments that followed this posting. (It would be pleasantly symmetrical if there were either 11 or 37, but I can't be bothered to count them. Simply reading them was despair enough.)

    Not only does almost nobody read prior posts any more, but apparently even those that do read them refuse to click on the wikipedia link. This has to be something of a first for curious perversion in technology.

    Well, I clicked on it, and it's a link that restores my faith in the beauty of mathematics. It's so deceptively simple to describe, and yet it prompts you to think "How the hell does that work once you're past 101?" My personal favourite is the extremely weird 333,667.

    The real WTF, of course, would be to ask for a seventeen digit unique prime. So close, and yet so far ...

  • tbrown (unregistered) in reply to apaq11
    apaq11:
    Please enter a 16 digit prime number? That's pretty excessive. Maybe I can just give it 16 one digit prime numbers and call it even?

    Sorry, once you call it "even" it's no longer prime! :)

  • anon (unregistered)

    That UK shopping centre is owned by an Australian company, Westfield. Sorry, Nat, but the poms have well and truly lost the blue-screen war.

  • (cs) in reply to tbrown
    tbrown:
    apaq11:
    Please enter a 16 digit prime number? That's pretty excessive. Maybe I can just give it 16 one digit prime numbers and call it even?

    Sorry, once you call it "even" it's no longer prime! :)

    In whose book?

    Even primes are distinctly less interesting than unique primes, but they still have their place.

    Let's just call it odds, shall we?

  • Galactus (unregistered) in reply to apaq11

    A "unique" 16-digit prime? Is that one that's not a twin prime?

  • Whaleman (unregistered) in reply to Nick
    Nick:
    16 digit prime number?

    Leading zeros count as digits right?

    0000000000000001

    Done!

    1 is NOT a prime number...

  • mathew (unregistered) in reply to Airor

    Surely all 16 digit prime numbers are unique? There's certainly no other integer that has the same value...

  • Anonymous Coward (unregistered)

    About unique primes: yes, that actually means something (presumably rational!), though I don't understand it very well. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_prime

    As for those of you who want 16 unique one-digit prime numbers, here: 2, 3, 5, 7, ♂ (11), ♪ (13), ◄ (17), ‼ (19), ↨ (23), ↔ (29), ▼ (31), % (37), ) (41), + (43), / (47), Ö (53)

    (Yes, I just used Alt+(Number)).

  • James Schend (unregistered) in reply to ambrosen
    ambrosen:
    rjmx:
    OK, I give up. What does the top logo on the back of the charger mean? That you can bring it into your house, but you can't take it out again?
    Indoor Use Only, just in case you did want to know.

    The WTF is that it wasn't made until December, 2008. So it's being send back-in-time or something.

  • (cs)
    [image]

    After reading that last sentence, I thought, "Oh, cool. That was quick! Must have been one of them AJAX shut-downs."

  • muttonchop (unregistered) in reply to Flatline
    Flatline:
    And yes, the French Connection in Australia is abbreviated to FCUK.

    It's called FCUK in Canada too, in case anyone cared.

  • (cs)

    What if I only have none-unique 16-digit prime numbers. Will I be able to use those?

  • Jo3sh (unregistered) in reply to apaq11

    "Maybe I can just give it 16 one digit prime numbers and call it even?"

    As long as they are unique, it should be okay.

  • QwikFix (unregistered) in reply to real_aardvark
    real_aardvark:
    my_math_is_not_well:
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_prime

    Not only does almost nobody read prior posts any more, but apparently even those that do read them refuse to click on the wikipedia link. This has to be something of a first for curious perversion in technology.

    Well, I clicked on it, and it's a link that restores my faith in the beauty of mathematics. It's so deceptively simple to describe, and yet it prompts you to think "How the hell does that work once you're past 101?" My personal favourite is the extremely weird 333,667.

    Well, your post convinced me to visit the Wikipedia page, and I have to say - Wow, simply amazing!

    Thanks to both of you for the push!

    Although, how can your favorite one not be the one with a period length of 294? How the hell did that happen?

  • ike (unregistered) in reply to apaq11

    0000000000000003 is a 16-digit prime number

  • Nate (unregistered) in reply to apaq11
    Please enter a 16 digit prime number? That's pretty excessive. Maybe I can just give it 16 one digit prime numbers and call it even?

    "2" "2" "2" "2" "2" "2" "2" "2" "2" "2" "2" "2" "2" "2" "2" "2"

    Looks even to me.

  • H-Bomb (unregistered) in reply to apaq11

    16 one digit prime numbers?? Even?? LOL

  • (cs)

    Ground Carpark. This seems a logical though redundant idea to me, what I want to know is where the Flying Carpark is.

    What would be there - flying cars, or flying parking spots? the former would be excellent, the latter challenging.

  • Ledward (unregistered) in reply to krupa

    That looks like Knox Shopping Centre.

  • Charlie Dobbie (unregistered) in reply to apaq11
    apaq11:
    Please enter a 16 digit prime number? That's pretty excessive. Maybe I can just give it 16 one digit prime numbers and call it even?

    Yes, as long as they're unique.

  • my_math_is_not_well (unregistered) in reply to real_aardvark
    real_aardvark:
    Well, I clicked on it, and it's a link that restores my faith in the beauty of mathematics. It's so deceptively simple to describe, and yet it prompts you to think "How the hell does that work once you're past 101?" My personal favourite is the extremely weird 333,667.
    I must admit I don't see the beauty or potential of this. Most maths concepts will work in any base you choose to represent numbers, this only works in base 10. In any other base you'd get a different set of numbers. (I think - I haven't verified my claim)

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