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Earliest indication of Prime numbers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mheyman@gmail.com)
Tue Jan 29 11:56:29 2008
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:53:53 -0500
From: "mheyman@gmail.com" <mheyman@gmail.com>
To: Cryptography <cryptography@metzdowd.com>
>From a fun article on the history of computing
<http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/the-wonderful-world-of-early-computing>
The 20,000-year-old bone revealed that early civilization had
mastered arithmetic series and even the concept of prime
numbers.
This predates the Egyptian and Greek references to prime number
knowledge I have heard about by a wide margin. Unfortunately, the
article doesn't go into any more detail then the quote above.
-Michael Heyman
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