[info] Earliest indication of Prime numbers

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: "mheyman at gmail.com" <mheyman at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:53:53 -0500
To: Cryptography <cryptography at metzdowd.com>
Subject: Earliest indication of Prime numbers

>From a fun article on the history of computing
<http://www.neatorama.com/2008/01/25/the-wonderful-world-of-early-computing>

    The 20,000-year-old bone revealed that early civilization had
    mastered arithmetic series and even the concept of prime
    numbers.

This predates the Egyptian and Greek references to prime number
knowledge I have heard about by a wide margin. Unfortunately, the
article doesn't go into any more detail then the quote above.

-Michael Heyman

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