Is This Prime?

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Post by jordigh » Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 6:23 PM UTC

Re: Is This Prime?

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Post by davjhan » Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 8:43 PM UTC

I love these simple web games! Great idea. One way to improve it is to add some more juice when you answer a question. Right now, the text in the number just swaps to the next question, so any sort of small visual feedback will help first time players get it more.

I also like to make these small web mini games on the side. Here's one where you guess the year that famous events happened: https://guess-the-year.davjhan.com/

Re: Is This Prime?

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Post by exo-pla-net » Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 8:45 PM UTC

Good practice for learning divisibility rules https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisibility_rule

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Post by Kluny » Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 8:53 PM UTC

I love it, but the game doesn't work for me! No response when I click Yes or No, or using the keyboard y and n. Just the clock ticking down. Chrome Version 91.0.4472.114 (Official Build) (64-bit) on Windows 10 Enterprise.

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Post by gerbler » Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 9:03 PM UTC

I really like it.

I wonder if the text could be dropped once it starts. I found myself reading it each time which ended up distracting me a little and sometimes I would rush and tapped the opposite of what I intended.

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Post by whoomp12342 » Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 9:13 PM UTC

man, these tech screenings are getting out of control

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Post by optimalsolver » Thu, Jul 15, 2021, 9:13 PM UTC

Is there a reason we're obsessed with primes beyond aesthetics? Why does this set of numbers garner all the headlines as opposed to some other arbitrary integer sequence like the Recamán numbers [0] ?

If tomorrow someone discovered a closed-form equation for the nth prime, how would mathematics/the world change?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recamán%27s_sequence