Re: Celebrate Odd Day today!

["BrYan P. Johnson" <bilko@onebabyzebra.com>]

>>>>> On Fri, 19 Nov 1999 12:37:58 -0500, "K . William Young" <will@mindspring.net> said:

    > On Fri, Nov 19, 1999 at 11:06:13AM -0500, Mike Harrelson wrote:
    >> =====================Forwarded Message:
    >> 
    >> The numerical format for Wednesday was 11-17-1999. All of the
    >> digits are odd.
    >> 
    >> The last Odd day in our lifetime is today 11-19-1999.

    > But!!! 11 and 17 are also prime. I checked bc and got:

    > [will@bofh will]$ bc bc 1.05 Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994,
    > 1997, 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.  This is free software
    > with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  For details type `warranty'.  13 *
    > 153 1989 1999 / 13 153

    > I _think_ 1999 is prime (because 2000 is smooth). There's a
    > special place in hell for whoever figured that no-one uses
    > /usr/games/primes and left it out of Mandrake.

    >> Hmm. . . maybe I too much free time.  ;-)

    > Am I thinking so Yes, hmm.

Speaking of free time:

#!/usr/bin/perl

$y = $ARGV[0];

for ($x = 2; $x < $y; $x++) {
        $z = $y / $x;
        if ($z == int($z)) {
        print "$x is a factor of $y\n";
        exit (0);
        }
        }

print "$y is prime\n";


BrYan