User: discadence (posted by cadence) Date: 2008-03-21 00:11 Subject: In which I am geeky in an unusual way for IJ Security: Public Mood: quixotic Tags: i fail at sleep

So I think tempetecoeur has rubbed off on me. Usually I just plot fic while I'm failing at falling asleep - and I did that last night, too, and damn you Szayel Aporro anyway - but I also found myself thinking of math.

You see, I was talking to tempetecoeur on my birthday (why I was thinking about this last night I have no idea). Despite the fact that we'd already covered how old I was turning, we had a conversation that went something like:

tempetecoeur: Now you're prime!
cadence: ...no?
tempetecoeur: ...er, no, sorry, I thought you were a year older for a second. But you're coprime?
cadence: I was coprime already!

So... assuming coprime = a product of two primes (which is not actually what it means, it seems! Who knew). The puzzle!:

a) Given reasonable assumptions about my age, how old am I?
( Spoiler! )

b)Given less reasonable assumptions about my age, but still reasonable for a human, what other ages could I be?
Extra credit: do this at night in your head, like I did.
( Spoiler! )

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User: discadence (posted by cadence) Date: 2008-03-21 15:11 Subject: Oh the hilarious irony Security: Public

You probably have to know a bit about blogs and the state of atheism in America for this to be as hilarious, but if you do:

PZ Myers of Pharyngula was prevented from seeing the creationist propaganda movie Expelled. Meanwhile...

...Seriously, go read the post, I laughed out loud for real. So perfect.

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