Showing posts with label #Prime_Numbers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #Prime_Numbers. Show all posts
Sunday, 2 October 2011
Niccolo Tartaglia's claim
In 1556, Niccolo Tartaglia (1500–1557) claimed that the sums
1 + 2 + 4, 1 + 2 + 4 + 8, 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16, . . .
stood successively for a prime number and a composite number.
Was he right?
1 + 2 + 4, 1 + 2 + 4 + 8, 1 + 2 + 4 + 8 + 16, . . .
stood successively for a prime number and a composite number.
Was he right?
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