Nicolas Alvarez wrote:

>> Maybe they don't know what a "prime number" is? (A surprising number 
>> of people don't know this. And of the ones who know what one is, a 
>> surprising number of them can't figure out how to FIND such numbers, 
>> or even CHECK one...)
> 
> Isn't that elementary school stuff?

Depends.

I went through my entire school career without ever having heard of a 
"prime number". I learned that when I went to college. Not because it 
was on the syllabus, but because I was bored so I spent 2 years *living* 
in the college library...

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