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From: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/german/dict/pkg COMMENT ports/german/webalizer/pkg COMMENT ports/german/BBBike/pkg COMMENT ports/german/spinne/pkg COMMENT ports/german/phone/pkg COMMENT ports/german/pkg COMMENT ports/german/manpages/pkg COMMENT ports/x11-wm/icewm/pkg COMMENT ...
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On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 12:33:08PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
> > >
> > >   in four equally-sized commits of 393 files each.
> > 
> > But is 393 prime ?!?!? :-)
> > (must be stated for the record)
> 
> Your childhood arithmetic teacher deserves a spanking.  Any number 
> whose digits add up to a multiple of 3 is divisible by 3, so of course 
> 393 isn't prime.

Hmm...  Well, I hadn't known that when I chose the number 393,
which I only really chose just because 524 (the next largest number
dividing 1572 equally) and 262 (the next smallest) were too big
and too small respectively.

Recall I asked in commit message #4/4 if anyone had figured-out
yet what made 393 special.

No, 393 isn't prime, but it just happens that 1572 (total number of
changes) / 4 = 393, and...

b$ factor $((393 + 4))
397: 397
b$ factor $((393 - 4))
389: 389
b$

Now, give me the rule governing that, Mike.  ;-)


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