Mandelbrot, the inventor of fractals, when he worked for IBM was presented with a problem involving interference in the transmission of information. Every so often parts of the transmitted information would seem to randomly drop off / scramble which, needless to say, caused problems with the transmitted informational message. The problem had to be ( Read more... )

1. Primes are defined as any number that can only be divided evenly by itself and 1 ( Read more... )

A Prime Number is a number that is defined as only being divisible by itself and 1. On the surface it would seem that this simple definition should produce a simple, predictable pattern for Prime Numbers but it doesn’t happen. It doesn’t happen because this simple definition is subject to about 4 rules that complicate the location of a Prime Number ( Read more... )

One of the things that drive people nuts that enjoy puzzles are Primes. Primes are any number that can be divided evenly by only itself and 1. If you ever look at a Table Of Primes, you will see they seem to have a pattern but there isn’t any readily recognizable rhyme or reason to it. Logically, you would think that the spaces that would separate ( Read more... )

The Count was right in Sesame Street when he said " This Universe is being brought to you by the number 3!!!". Here are 3 things that are all you need to know about numbers including Primes. For you excitable types, that have been driven dippy about Primes read 2 first ( Read more... )

The world is full of weird things like numbers. A prime number is any number that can only be divided by itself and 1. The single digit prime numbers are 1, 2, 3, 5, 7 as they can only be divided by themselves and 1. 1 will divide evenly into any number odd or even. 2 will only divide into even numbers such as 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 in the first column ( ( Read more... )