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> If there were an article on HN tomorrow with the headline 'Integer with more than one prime factorisation found' I wouldn't be able to resist clicking the lin
by AimHere 10y ago
> If there were an article on HN tomorrow with the headline 'Integer with more than one prime factorisation found' I wouldn't be able to resist clicking the link.
Curiously, I've only just found out that
48016416432886585186892071037001629018831524915070361
17449649760043615376581136847123881454516238486352419
62687300988949648670959062041377941995335910356581948
79838588416610716340382432762472099541373300228025778
94213135434471675634979394732216151334015571089605667
2861
has two distinct prime factorizations, thus providing a counterexample to Euclid's Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic and showing that he made a mistake somewhere.
Unfortunately the truly marvellous lists of factors are too small to fit in a Hacker News comment, so you'll have to rediscover the details yourself.
- vinchuco 10y agoYour comment has destroyed the browsing experience on mobile :)
- AimHere 10y agoHah. Apologies for that! I thought the downvotes were because it was a lame joke, not that I was destroying the site!
- umanwizard 10y agoFWIW, I downvoted you because it's a lame joke.
- wlesieutre 10y agoAlso on desktop. Can we get some max-width and overflow:scroll in here?
- ColinWright 10y agoPlease edit this to restore the formatting to something usable. Edit: Thank you.
- CarolineW 10y agoI would rather trust the proof of the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic than trust the bald and unsupported assertion by someone I don't know and haven't heard of. Sorry. :-(
- AimHere 10y agoOh, that's fine. I don't want anyone to trust me, I just wanted to get the OP to go to the trouble of checking up on me, since he or she is willing to go at least partways in that direction :)
- clux 10y agoDamn that Fermat margin.