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Re: ANN: the first million prime numbers in XML format

• From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
• Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 16:58:47 +0100

>>> Er, pardon me for asking, but what's so special about prime numbers?
>>>
>>>

All numbers are equally special.

Proof: suppose that some numbers are more special than others. Then 
there must be a set of numbers that are the least special of all; and 
one of these must be the lowest such number. This number would be rather 
special. Contradiction.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

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