Why should I switch to Python? - Infinity of Primes

[Nick Maclaren]

In article <NDBBKEGCNONMNKGDINPFGEJDDFAA.infonuovo at email.com>, "Dennis E. Hamilton" <infonuovo at email.com> writes:
|> The standard approach is a proof by contradiction starting from the
|> assumption that there is a largest prime.

There is also a constructive proof based on the Fundamental
Theorem of Arithmetic, that is little more complex.

But I am at a complete loss to know why you need to be able
to prove that there are an infinity of primes in order to
switch to Python :-)


Regards,
Nick Maclaren,
University of Cambridge Computing Service,
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