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  1. You're welcome. Thanks for hanging in with me as well. I can be a bit crusty; or so I have been told. So I started searching OEIS for the term 'prime pair' and it returned 175 pages of listings. So far I have got through about the first 20 and while it's chock full of interesting goodies I haven't found the listing. Or at least the listing as I expect to see it. Anyway, I'll give you the link and maybe you can start at the end and work your way back. prime pair @ OEIS >> https://oeis.org/search?q=prime%20pair Not exactly what we want, but here's a listing of the gaps between twin prime pairs. >> https://oeis.org/A167132
  2. Stop telling us to look up the Japanese study. As I said before, the onus is on you to give a link and quote from it what you think supports your thesis. PS Besides physical trauma, some animal venoms are capable of causing bruising.
  3. Yes; we have. She hit herself in the head. Whether by thrashing about and hitting her head on a part of the bed or having some object in her hand which she used to strike her head, the wound was self-inflicted. Neither does it matter if she was asleep or awake when the injury occurred.
  4. He is asking about 'prime twins', which is as he said, a pair of twin primes with no interceding primes. Twin primes @ Wiki >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_prime So, for example, [11:13|17:19] is a 'prime twin' or a 'prime pair'. Now that I understand what you are asking, I do find it interesting. I'll see if I can find a list of your quarry at OEIS.
  5. Didn't see the program and no time just now. Is it about pebble-bed reactors? On the copy/paste; yes a number of us. Quick fix is to click the toggle switch on the extreme left corner of the edit box and it puts you in a simple text mode that you can paste to. (There's a thread here on this but not sure where.) Edit: Here is where I ASKED ABOUT IT. >> http://www.scienceforums.net/topic/7785-quick-forum-questions/?p=788481
  6. I think you need to add heat, as the bee smoker is intentionally cool smoke to prevent harm to the bees. Infrared lamps perhaps?
  7. Sorry. I have no idea what you're saying here. You said: So how can there be infinitely many anything in a finite set? No.
  8. I don't think the original argument/problem that Moontan brought necessitates any defense/debate of atheism. The point is moot regarding [Christian] creationism vs. reality in the situation Moontan confronted. That scarecrow has no brain.
  9. So, in your first post what you say is a contradiction because there is no infinite set of any natural numbers within a finite set of natural numbers. As to your rephrasing, since the twin prime conjecture is unproven I see no basis for proving something similar for consecutive twin primes. [Note: Consecutive (a pair of) twin primes can be referred to as 'prime twins' or 'prime pair'.] While it is one thing to say how likely a prime character is on an interval, it is quite another to say what interval or where on it the prime character may appear. Perhaps my comments will draw comments from the others. (I don't know how likely that is though. )
  10. The onus is on you to provide the supporting evidence for your thesis.
  11. How do you know it IS the case? You don't. You are reading something into anecdotal stories that is not evidenced in them.
  12. Again, I don't see anything to prove, so my only struggle is trying to understand your point.
  13. (not aware of) self-mutilation (hurting one's self) through (by the method of) abnormal autosuggestibility (the brain is abnormally responsive to psychological suggestions, so it causes a physical wound to appear) So what? Your OP suggests bodily injury occurs without physical action, which is not the case.
  14. That line says stigamata can be caused by the mind. This means the brain has the ability to physically rip apart the epidermis and dermis, to allow blood to flow out the skin. No. It means the mind can allow a person to self-mutilate in their sleep.
  15. OK. So there's no issue and nothing to prove.
  16. No; stigmata is not telekinesis. As I quoted, it is self-mutilation. Self-mutilation in sleep producing a burn is achieved by vigorous rubbing.
  17. The problem was my not understanding what you wrote. I see nothing special about the case you give; I'm sure there is no limit to similar cases.
  18. Burns can be produced by friction; think 'rope burn'. Perhaps a reference to stigmata will help in your misunderstanding. source: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigmata
  19. Only insomuch as people really dream.
  20. I still don't understand. Can you give some examples?
  21. I did look it up. The mind is quite amazing, isn't it?
  22. You are correct. 20 tetrahedra do not close-pack to form an icosahedron. I don't have a ready reference, but investigated this with a friend some years ago when discussing Fuller's Synergetics: Explorations In The Geometry of Thinking.
  23. Sounds more like a real injury occurring during sleep induces the dream, not the other way around.
  24. Factors of the pair of twin primes? I don't understand that. By definition Primes have no factors.
  25. Can you do argyle? Apology accepted. Don't let it happen again. No doubt it's funny in England because it's another example of the jackass crap Americans can come up with. Nevertheless, it's a good habit to look up who and what you intend to quote before hitting the Post button. Some of us American jackasses call this 'due diligence'. Technical writing is an art. ~ Acme Reading maketh a full person; conference a ready person; and writing an exact person. ~ Francis Bacon ~ ~ philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, orator, essayist, and author ~ [paraphrased] You are quite right to talk of history in science as well as the art in it. Anyway, I will post 1 more of my art pieces before I reveal that all of them are gnomons of polygonal numbers and that the definition of polygonal numbers is variously attributed, often to Hypsicles of Alexandria around 170 BC, sometimes to Pythagoras around 460 BC. Arguably in any case, as old as dirt. other sources: http://math.bu.edu/people/kost/teaching/MA341/PolyNums.pdf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polygonal_Numbers http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypsicles Perhaps some of you will recognize the Perfect Squares from 12 to 62.
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