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In article <PM0004CCA66AD92...@ac814669.ipt.aol.com>,
 jmfbahciv <See.ab...@aol.com> wrote:

> Charles Richmond wrote:
> > "jmfbahciv" <See.ab...@aol.com> wrote in message
> > news:PM0004CC411827C227@aca20890.ipt.aol.com...
> >> Gene Wirchenko wrote:
> >>> On 16 Oct 2012 14:52:31 GMT, jmfbahciv <See.ab...@aol.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> [snip]
> >>>
> >>>>Good.  I think the most elegant programming in apps is based on tables.
> >>>>I get almost as good a chill down my spine thinking about that kind
> >>>>of code as when I think about the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
> >>>
> >>>      I like the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic myself.
> >>
> >> That's a new one to me.
> >>
> >
> > The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic states that every integer greater than
> > 1 is either a prime itself or a product of primes, and that each such
> > integer has a unique prime factorization.  It is sometimes called the Unique
> > Factorization Theorem.
> 
> Ah!  Ok.  I have never played with that one.  It might be interesting to
> create a system where that Theorem is not true.
> 
> /BAH

That would be the real numbers for one.

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