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NUMBER - LoveToKnow Article on NUMBER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | Thus the notions of one, two, and the vague many are fundamental, and must have impressed themselves on the human mind at a very early period: evidence of this is found in the grammatical distinction of singular, dual and plural which occurs in ancient languages of widely different races. |
| | Fermat, for instance, discovered that every positive prime of the form 411+1 is uniquely expressible as the stim of two squares. |
| | In order that two forms may admit of composition into a third, it is necessary and sufficient that their determinants be in the ratio of two squares. |
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