Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Interesting Math Problem

Hello, Mike
Except (1,3,5) and (3,5,7) there are no sets of prime numbers in the
form of (n, n+2, n+4), because one of these numbers will be divisible
by 3. Considering that the age is also influenced by months, the ages
may vary a bit, but the difference should be at most 1 year, so again
this will not be possible, because one of these numbers would be
divisible by 2. So I'd say that the condition that the ages of all
three children are prime numbers will never happen again (with greater
ages).
However, there is a great chance that tomorrow all people in the story
will have the same age, so that's when it all happens again :)
RazvanAhhhh... I forgot about tomorrow...
"Razvan Socol" <rsocol@.gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1144992035.539391.306370@.i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...
> Hello, Mike
> Except (1,3,5) and (3,5,7) there are no sets of prime numbers in the
> form of (n, n+2, n+4), because one of these numbers will be divisible
> by 3. Considering that the age is also influenced by months, the ages
> may vary a bit, but the difference should be at most 1 year, so again
> this will not be possible, because one of these numbers would be
> divisible by 2. So I'd say that the condition that the ages of all
> three children are prime numbers will never happen again (with greater
> ages).
> However, there is a great chance that tomorrow all people in the story
> will have the same age, so that's when it all happens again :)
> Razvan
>

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