Why should I switch to Python? - Infinity of Primes

[Jim Richardson]

On 04-Apr-2000 Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> The standard approach is a proof by contradiction starting from the
> assumption that there is a largest prime.
> 
> It's usually one of the earliest proofs in books on Number Theory.  Euclid
> provided a proof and a version is given in section 4.2 of "Concrete
> Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science" by Ronald L. Graham, Donald
> E. Knuth, and Oren Patashnik.  Addison-Wesley (Reading, MA: 1989).   ISBN
> 0-201-14236-8.
> 



Thanks for the great responce! I learned math as well as Python bits on the 
python NG, cool... :)



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