Friday, January 25, 2008

 

from www.thefuckingshit.org

[ found originally at www.thefuckingshit.org, a blog worth to be read written by a guy in Spain... so if you want to read the original, it'll be a good chance for you to test your language skills! :) ]


Primes look for primes

People are like numbers: there are numbers which are the mere composition of others, the composite numbers and numbers which are genuinely unique, the prime numbers.

The composite numbers have millions of common factors. They like to believe what they're told and they don't like you to do not believe in what they say, they give kisses on your cheek as they spit on your back, they die to be envied and they die of envy too, they accept what the rest accepts and reject what the rest rejects. The composite numbers have easiness to find a partner, they don't lack of multiples that can make them the exact division nor divisors that can decompose them.

However the prime numbers are the most particular cases. They are authentic. They don't let themselves be divided by anyone but themselves, they haven't based their existence on what others are and the most important, when they find another prime number whom they multiply with, the result is hard to factorize.

That is why, even when the prime numbers have it harder to find each other, when they do, the product is so peculiar that is very costly to go back to its origin. A prime number leaves a mark which is hard to forget. In occasions, in order to leave behind the memory of the original multiplication, there's no other remedy than to find another prime with whom make the product. If primes were composite that task wouldn't be so complex but, as the primes are a small conjunction in the inmensity of the line of real numbers, they have to go trying discretly some of the infinite terms of the life series, just to see if they find one to get, with the accumulation of their experiences, a result that diverges to +infinite.

This message goes to all those prime numbers that one day found each other and for some reason something factorized implacably their product. There are more primes on the line, it's only a matter of waiting for that inflection point that makes the curve go positive.

Luther Blissett.

[ translators' addition: sometimes the line makes a loop and as long as the "number" is alive there's still a chance to meet again. ]

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