Resistance Value?

[Mike O'Dell]

and then there's the engineer's version....

     1 is prime
     3 is prime
     5 is prime
     7 is prime
     9 is prime
     11 is prime
     13 is prime
...........

     -mo



On 10/25/12 9:48 PM, Richard O'Neill wrote:
>
>  Proof? We don't need no stinkin' proof! However, to verify my 
> thinking I did wire a few 100 ohm resistors into a small grid and 
> noted resistance readings at several points. It only required 24 
> resistors to convince me.
>
>  As my old math professor would say, I used a version of a 
> 'physicist's proof' that all odd numbers are prime. That is, 1,3,5,and 
> 7 are prime. 9 isn't prime but we'll discard that as experimental 
> error. 11 and 13 are prime. Therefore, all odd numbers are prime. 
> Works most of the time. :-P
>
> Richard
>
>
> On 10/25/2012 7:52 PM, Phil wrote:
>> If I am wrong, does my prize get busted down to a half-ohm resistor? 
>> Meanwhile, can anyone spare me an infinite number of perfect one-ohm 
>> resistors so that I can do the experiment?
>>
>> BTW Richard, do you have a better proof than mine?
>
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