• Iron Lynx
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    9 months ago

    And since both 3 and 17 are prime numbers, that makes 51 a semiprime number

    • @[email protected]
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      39 months ago

      Which is why it feels kind of prime, imho. I don’t know if other people get this, but I get a sense of which two-digit numbers are prime probably because of how often they show up in times tables and other maths operations.

      3*17 isn’t a common operation though and doesn’t show up in tables like that, so people probably aren’t generally familiar with it.