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I don't know why I feel compelled to mention it, but 1791991 is a prime number.
by npongratz 7y ago
I don't know why I feel compelled to mention it, but 1791991 is a prime number.
- kgwxd 7y agoHow did you realize that?
- kittiepryde 7y agoI wanted to verify it too, if you Google '1791991 prime', the search page answers 'Yes'.
- npongratz 7y agoYeah, I indeed Googled it [0]. Wolfram Alpha is also a quick way to verify, just query the number: https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1791991 https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1791991 [0] I thought to check because I instantly knew the number was not divisible by 3 (since 1+7+1+1 % 3 = 1), and at that point it's just quicker to look it up than run through the other primes up to sqrt(1791991).
- katet 7y agoI was born 17.09.1990, exactly a year off. I grew up with Linux and am eternally grateful to the "scene" surrounding the magazine CDs with - I don't know - like 17 distros packed in together and endless tutorials on each of them. It's also amusing how many people - my age or so - use Ubuntu as a daily driver these days that never went through the pain of configuring LILO or Broadcom drivers from source in Slackware ;)
- mseidl 7y agoI started using Linux in around 94/95. I heard some people say how cool Linux was. So after numerous attempts I got it installed and was booted to a command prompt and asked "What the fuck is so cool about this?" I would turn out to be love at first sight. I've been using Linux since and I've been working at SUSE for 10 years this Fall.
- danudey 7y ago> the pain of configuring LILO LI
- nuxi 7y agoThank you, this just made my day. :)
- jbuzbee 7y agoYeah - I recall that the number of characters printed would tell you where it failed.
- basementcat 7y agoI once made a patched LILO that would print LOL instead of LIL when the second stage bootloader barfed.
- abawany 7y agoDon't forget xf86config and other X11 fun to make it work with monitors, before peoples shared settings for popular models.
- dntbnmpls 7y agoSo is 9171991.