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  • Re: A Problem To Solve :-)

    From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to Farley Flud on Mon Jan 29 11:53:14 2024
    On 2024-01-29 08:28:55 +0000, Farley Flud said:

    On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 16:44:22 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:


    But do at least tell us you did it by hand or by a program.


    I used a small C program to "brute force" the solution.

    There may be a way to solve it with number theory, but I
    don't know very much about number theory.

    Anyway, for three-digit, non-repeating integers (also with
    no digit being 0) there are 9*8*7 = 504 possibilities. Only
    a crazy person would do it "by hand."

    Hard to believe it now, but 65 years or so ago, when I was about 15, I
    was that crazy. I read somewhere that the factors of 11111 were 41 and
    271. I wondered if 1111111 had any factors, and if so what were they? I
    found 239 and 4649, _by hand_! No computers then (not ones I had access
    to, anyway) and I don't think I had access to a mechanical calculator.

    --
    athel -- biochemist, not a physicist, but detector of crackpots

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  • From Athel Cornish-Bowden@21:1/5 to Lester Thorpe on Thu Feb 15 11:11:00 2024
    On 2024-02-14 20:33:37 +0000, Lester Thorpe said:

    On Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:50:13 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:


    Why did Stallman say that?


    I can't speak for the great Dr. Richard Stallman but I can
    deliver some worthwhile observations.

    Western society (i.e. USA/Europe) has gone backwards. Even
    though such sexual indicators such as the age of menarche have
    fallen in the West, the age of consent has paradoxically
    increased.

    Oh yes. A lot of girls at the age of 10 years can actually
    become pregnant -- and that alone should define the age
    of consent.

    Nonsense

    Unfortunately, the sexual maturity of males lags behind that
    of females. The consequence of this is that some (a lot?)
    of 10-year-old girls actually seek and seduce older men.

    Wishful thinking

    IOW, the older man does not seduce the 10-year-old girl,
    but the 10-year-old-girl seduces the older man.

    Wishful thinking

    The fact is undeniable

    Says who?

    but the prudish West ignores the
    truth and enacts insane legislation that defines the end
    of childhood to be 18 years. Holy moley! Thus, a girl
    who is 17 years, 11 months, 30 days, 11 hours, and 59 minutes
    is still a fucking child! (And you'll be put in prison if
    you get caught fucking that bitch.)

    Hell, I was sexually active when I was 11-12. I remember
    playing "spin the bottle" with a bunch of 6th-graders.
    But most kids know how to keep a secret. So "child"
    fucking goes on and is quite rampant everywhere.

    The great Dr. Richard Stallman only states the obvious that
    every progressive human understands.

    Only the repressed prudes will screech like monkeys.


    --
    athel -- biochemist, not a physicist, but detector of crackpots

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