2 is an unexampled even prime

2 is an unexampled even prime

[pjf]

I wrote that I didn't know what "unexampled richness" means. Fred
Linton was the first to tell me that it means unparalleled. Indeed,
the Oxford English Dictionary gives the definition:

    Having no preceding or similar example; unprecedented, unparalleled.

and lists 7 citations, the earliest from 1610.

Sounds like a contradiction to me.


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Re: 2 is an unexampled even prime

[Vaughan Pratt]

"Even" can be dropped.  There being no preceding such, 2 is an
unexampled prime.

The occasion of two centuries (to within the very month) after Boole's
birth is a most auspicious one to point out that, as a prime number, the
number of solutions of x^2 = x is unprecedented.

Vaughan

On 11/14/2015 6:23 PM, pjf wrote:
> I wrote that I didn't know what "unexampled richness" means. Fred
> Linton was the first to tell me that it means unparalleled. Indeed,
> the Oxford English Dictionary gives the definition:
>
>     Having no preceding or similar example; unprecedented, unparalleled.
>
> and lists 7 citations, the earliest from 1610.
>
> Sounds like a contradiction to me.

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