On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:56:40 +0100, Jack <jj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote in <news:Vqnhk.100$WT.80@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> in
alt.algebra.help:
> "Brian M. Scott" <b.scott@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> news:si8sg57enf2l.1wpz77twjgg32.dlg@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:37:36 +0100, Jack <jj@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote in <news:hZ9hk.17700$A42.13504@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> in
>> alt.algebra.help:
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>>> As y increases, each new prime, p, of value <sqrt(y) is,
>>> on average, further apart in absolute terms than the
>>> previous (i.e. the prime that is adjacent but of lower
>>> value than p), but closer in pro****tionate terms to the
>>> previous; and the value of 1/p, p in P gets smaller and
>>> smaller; furthermore, for any p,q in P, where q < p and
>>> p and q are adjacent primes, the pro****tion of n in
>>> [1,y] whose factors are exclusively q and 1 gets ever
>>> closer to the pro****tion of n whose factors are exclusive
>>> p and 1.
>> Bollocks. First, the only positive integer whose only
>> factors are 1 and q is q; I assume that you mean numbers
>> whose only prime factor is q. Those are simply the powers
>> q^n for n > 0.
> Bollocks. Take y=19^2. Now consider 3*23. 23<19^2 and
> 3*23 has only one factor in P.
So what? This has nothing to do with what you actually said
above in the passage to which I was responding. Apparently
once again you failed to say what you meant.
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