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Amazon should've made Prime Day fall on a date corresponding to an actual three-digit prime number. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by booly@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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Amazon is running a Prime Day sale on July 16 and 17. Setting aside the fact that this is two separate days, neither 716 nor 717 are prime numbers. They should've done 7/19 instead.

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[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 month ago (9 children)

How the hell is 717 not a prime number? Who fucked that up? I vote we just change that

[–] olafurp@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago (8 children)

Divisible by 3. Easy to check since 7 + 1 + 7 = 15 which is divisible by 3.

[–] FeatherConstrictor@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Oh awesome that's a neat trick I've never seen before. How does that work? For a number like 700 for example, 7 + 0 + 0 = 7 but 700 is visible by 10.

[–] owsei@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

A programmer I know wrote a small paper about this

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