Thread: Math problem
View Single Post
  #29  
Old August 6th, 2003, 10:09 PM
LGM's Avatar

LGM LGM is offline
Sergeant
  
Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Posts: 222
Thanks: 0
Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts
LGM is on a distinguished road
Default Re: Math problem
Prime numbers are a nice way to test if something is a member of a set. Products of prime numbers is a common way of encoding sets because you can divide by a given prime. If the remainder is zero, it is an element of the set.
Reply With Quote