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From: Phil Carmody on 12 Jul 2006 21:14 "Ioannis" <morpheus(a)olympus.mons> writes: > Two quotes: > > 1) I have discovered the formula of the prime numbers after 20 years of > research and injury. > > 2) I am Seyyed Mohammad Reza Hashemi Moosavi and university professor that I > chosen as a superior investigator in superiors and initiators festival in > 1383. > > What's 1) supposed to mean? That he got injured after finding the formula or > that he was continuously injured during those 20 years as a result of his > research? I will admit, that's pretty funny. I wonder if it's like the slipper at school - "this will hurt me more than you". It's probably true, I didn't suffer any permanent damage from viewing his webpage. Quite what he suffered, one is reticent to find out. > According to 2) this guy is at least 623 years old. Perhaps his formula was > the elixir for eternal life. Nope, he's well over 1300 years old. They use AUC in Iran, didn't you know? Phil -- The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894), American physician and writer
From: Jens Kruse Andersen on 12 Jul 2006 22:09
> Colin wrote: > > >> What's everyone's opinion of the site > >> www.primenumbersformula.com? Is the > >> author for real, or just a crank? > Phil Carmody wrote: > > > At least a non-negligible proportion of crank. > > The only sensible material on that page is vast > > swathes of copyrighted material lifted from > > Professor Caldwell's Prime Pages, such as > > http://primepages.org/notes/faq/why.html Dave L. Renfro wrote: > Heh, he didn't even bother to correct the grammar > error when he lifted the material! If you think that's badly lifted from the Prime Pages then compare these: http://www.csam.iit.edu/~cs549/cs549/project/Contrastprimalitytests.htm http://primes.utm.edu/prove/merged.html -- Jens Kruse Andersen |