Re: ANN: Seed7 Release 2008-02-17

Captain Tony Valare said:

> With recursion  being a main control structure, as the author suggests,
> somewhere I missed the boat.  I've never used recursion except once in a
> prime number analysis algorithm from a programming book.  It said that
> epime numbers were a combination of prime factors (which makes sense),

No, it makes no sense at all. Primes /are/ prime factors. They are not 
combinations of anything. That is practically the definition of primes!

Exercise: here are the first ten primes: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 
29. List their prime factors.

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