SOME SQUARE PEGS AND A ROUND HOLE

SOME SQUARE PEGS AND A ROUND HOLE

7,19,37,61 ...All prime numbers! A cousin who was a mathematician at the Open University came to see us. Is this return to the original numbers when they reach the power of five, dependent on our number system of counting in tens? I tried base 6.

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Veröffentlicht in:Mathematics Teaching 2013-05 (234), p.22
1. Verfasser: Murray, Jenny
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Sprache:eng
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Calculators
Investigations
Number Systems
Open Universities
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Zusammenfassung:7,19,37,61 ...All prime numbers! A cousin who was a mathematician at the Open University came to see us. Is this return to the original numbers when they reach the power of five, dependent on our number system of counting in tens? I tried base 6.
ISSN:0025-5785