The Prime Lexicon: A list of English words that are prime in base 36

Post by roundsquare » Fri, Oct 30, 2009, 6:22 AM UTC

Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 30, 2009, 6:34 AM UTC

syoutsey wrote: post #3

I'm a little confused...why did he use base 36 instead of base 26? Aren't there only 26 letters we need to convert to numbers?

Post by nrr » Fri, Oct 30, 2009, 6:37 AM UTC

ralphb wrote: post #10

My personal favourite: PRIMETEST But the list is surprisingly long, so not that surpring that something concerning primes would be in there.

Post by nrr » Fri, Oct 30, 2009, 7:51 AM UTC

berntb wrote: post #16

Sigh, I thought it would be about PDP-10, the coolest assembler I've ever seen.

Post by eru » Fri, Oct 30, 2009, 10:09 AM UTC

roundsquare wrote: post #11

Interesting. Could be fun to combine this with distributions on word length, etc... and compare the number of primes we see to the expected number of primes (using the prime number theorem). Would be funny if we had a tendency towards prime words :)