Yet Another Awakening

[swestrup]

So, this time I slept until just before midnight. I'm now most of the way rotated around my schedule. With any luck I'll wake Thursday morning around 6:00 am, and try and hold to that sort of wake-up time for a little while, as its what causes me to get the most work done.

I don't have much more to say, except I found this gem in the fortune file this morning:

Once upon a time, when I was training to be a mathematician, a group of
us bright young students taking number theory discovered the names of the
smaller prime numbers.

2: The Odd Prime --

It's the only even prime, therefore is odd. QED.

3: The True Prime --

Lewis Carroll: "If I tell you 3 times, it's true."

31: The Arbitrary Prime --

Determined by unanimous unvote. We needed an arbitrary prime in case the prof asked for one, and so had an election. 91 received the most votes (well, it *looks* prime) and 3 4i the next most. However, 31 was the only candidate to receive none at all.

41: The Female Prime --

The polynomial X**2 - X 41 is prime for integer values from 1 to 40.

43: The Male Prime --

they form a prime pair.

Since the composite numbers are formed from primes, their qualities
are derived from those primes. So, for instance, the number 6 is "odd
but true", while the powers of 2 are all extremely odd numbers.