Vitanuova for 2002 January 2 (entry 4)

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Definition of "prime" >

I agree with Sumana's answer to Hofstadter's problem of explaining what it means for a number to be a power of two. (There is no loophole there; an odd number times an odd number always yields another odd number.) Another possibility is to write

prime(x) = not exists a such that exists b such that a!=1 and b!=1 and a*b=x.

power_of_two(b) = not exists f such that exists d such that f!=2 and prime(f) and d*f=b.


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