On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 06:41:43 +0000, Richard Heathfield
<rjh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>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.
Well, it may or may not make sense. It rather depends upon what
an epime number might be and what kind of combining is being
done.
Richard Harter, cri@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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