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| − | * '''Laziness''' |
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| − | Greedy Son: Dad, I need some new clothes. Gimme some money. |
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| − | Strict Dad: How many money do you need [pulls out wad of bills] |
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| − | Greedy Son: Mind your own business! I don't tell you how to earn the money, |
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| − | so don't tell me how to spend it! I'll ask Mom instead. |
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| − | Lazy Mom : Here's a credit card, Son. Just charge what you need. |
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| − | * '''Borrowing from the Future''' |
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| − | Student: I need a list of prime numbers |
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| − | Teacher: Easy. I'll give you the first one: 2. |
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| − | Now test each odd integer starting at 3 and try dividing by every prime up to its square root. |
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| − | Student: But I need to already know the primes in order to divide them into my candidates, don't I? |
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| − | Teacher: No problem, I have an infinite list of them! I'll make you a deal. |
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| − | I'll feed you these divisor primes as you need them, and you tell |
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| − | me whether your numerator ended up being prime. |
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| − | Student: OK, 3 is the next prime number |
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| − | Teacher: [Quickly writes this down on his list] |
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| − | Student: Hey, you're cheating! I'm the one doing all the work here! I'm |
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| − | generating primes faster than I need them, so really I'm stealing |
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| − | from myself. What's the use pretending I'm getting them from you? |
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| − | Teacher: No, I'm just doodling, I really do know all the primes. Your code |
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| − | is much simpler with me handing you the divisor primes anyway. |
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| − | What do you care where I get them from? It's no extra work for you! |
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| − | * '''Running in Circles''' |
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| − | Athlete: I run on an infinitely long track. I can go forever in a straight line without coming to the end. |
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| − | Trainer: Dummy, you're running on a treadmill. Look around: the walls aren't even moving. |
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| − | Athlete: I can't, the lights are off. The only thing I can see is the lighted path at my feet. |
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| − | Trainer: Moron! Don't you see that number "2" painted on the treadmill that keeps repeating every couple meters? |
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| − | Athlete: Of course, amazing how someone had the patience to keep painting the number 2 over and over. |
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| − | Trainer: Has it occurred to you that that is the same number "2" going by each time? |
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| − | Athlete: Prove it! |
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| − | Trainer: Easy, I'll just write a "3" next to it. See, the "2" is gone, now it's "23". |
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| − | Athlete: Now who d'you think you're fooling? You just knew the numbers ahead were all "23" after a certain point. |
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| − | Trainer: You're unbelievable! Don't you remember that there were numbers "2" before, and now it's "23"? |
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| − | Athlete: That's what ''I'''m saying! |
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| − | Trainer: Your logic is too lazy for me. You can't tell the difference between an infinite list and a cyclic one. |
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| − | Athlete: What do I care? I still get all the exercise I need! |
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