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August 6th, 2003, 10:09 PM
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Sergeant
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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
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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.
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