Re: ANN: Seed7 Release 2008-02-17

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Captain Tony Valare said:
> "Richard Heathfield" <rjh@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> 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!
>>
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> So it is only necessary to determine if a given integer is prime by
> testing it for even divisibility against all prime factors up to the
> square root of the integer.

Yes, but that doesn't mean that primes are a combination of prime factors 
(which is what you actually said in your previous article).

> (but all those are infested by prime factors).  So those primes can be
> generated by using prime factors.

Certainly true.

>  It was not quite as straight forward as you all believed.

We're not mind readers. I replied to what you wrote, not to what you may 
have meant to write.

> I ultimately could show what coincidence there was
> between prime factors of the eventually generated primes. (what a nail
> biter that was)

Yes, it must have been astounding to discover that every single prime had 
the same number of prime factors... none whatsoever.

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