I just happened to look through my fans, foes and freaks and noticed I have a foe.
You go drhyde.
I wonder if it a random foe-ing or intentional? If I truly cared I suppose I could ask or something.
I find it amusing that he's a friend of a friend, too. Not that unusual given Perl's community. I would bet the degree of separation in the Perl community is probably no more than 3 or 4.
$nick =~ /mathboy/, I have to make it Friend. Anyone who checks primality of $N is my kinda people. (I have marked one Foe, but since Uri never logs in here, it's harmless poking of fun.)
For me, $N is not prime but not highly composite, $N=$P**2 for prime $P=$P[$j], and $N=2**$M + 1, having been recently 2**$M which was cool. I won't be Prime until 4 more birthdays, but was prime at $P[$j-1]==2**$M-1.
That's probably enough information to solve for $N, especially if one notes that per my blurb here, I've now been using Perl 4 + Perl 5 for 12 years, after resisting holding tight to AWK which I had used for 4 years before Perl was announced (which improves the natural lower bound to $N, which is also obviously bounded from above). I hope that my having used Perl as many years as AWK before (12) it doesn't mean I have to switch to Ruby or *shudder* Python now
Re:Friends & Foes, Math
gizmo_mathboy on 2007-12-19T03:57:04
But you could have been an even primed foe!:-)
Probably still can be, I haven't checked yet.
I suppose I could do the math but my brain is a bit addled (kind of late and it's been a long week already).
Always good to have more friends.Re:Friends & Foes, Math
n1vux on 2007-12-20T05:10:20
ah yes, the even prime is the oddest number of all.Re:Friends & Foes, Math
runrig on 2007-12-20T23:06:05
Or accidental? My understanding of it is that you choose your friends and foes, i.e., you chose him as a foe. If he foed (I made that word up) you, then he would be on your "freak" list.I wonder if it a random foe-ing or intentional?Re:Friends & Foes, Math
gizmo_mathboy on 2007-12-21T03:54:27
holy crap, you're right.
Hmmm.