Thursday, May 22, 2014

Millionaire Math

   I've been watching a lot of game show clips YouTube, so prepare for more of these.


   I would have lost, since it was timed and I realized too late they were talking about squares instead of primes. I had confused primes before with this. Uh, that's it, I think.

   It's like that one scene in the Canadian horror movie Cube, infamous to mathematicians because it takes a character a few seconds to figure out whether or not an even number and a number ending in five are prime or not. Only this is about square numbers which I thought meant primes, and didn't know what they were talking about right off the bat?

   I've gotten too complacent in thinking I've got WWtbaM's mathematics beat, I guess.



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