Re: tabulation of primes

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From: George Mitchell
Date: Tue, 11 Aug 1992 15:37

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sammy@anagld.analytics.com (Sam Blackburn) writes:
>                                               The number of primes
>is not infinite (I'm probably going to get flamed on that remark).

Our Internet link went down shortly after this article arrived, so
I'm probably not the first to remind you of Euclid's proof that there
is no largest prime number, and therefore the number of primes IS
indeed infinite.                -- George Mitchell (george@tessi.com)

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From: george@tessi.com (George Mitchell)
Subject: Re: tabulation of primes
Message-ID: <1992Aug11.153712.28912@tessi.com>
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