Talk:Permutable prime
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Note to PrimeFan: Do you dispute that primutation is a reasonable synonym for a Permutable prime? I added primutation as a synonym to the Permutable prime page in good faith, not as a joke or as defacement. I respect the work you've done sharing your extensive knowledge of the many varieties of prime numbers, and I will not waste your time with a edit/re-edit war. I do however ask that you reconsider the merits of primutation, and not just rely on Google-ability as a sole standard of legitimacy. Google does not contain all of human knowledge, and specifically cannot be trusted to know about all the forms of Technical terminology in use by various communities. Primutation is a real piece of technical terminology in use by certain communities of mathematical enthusiasts and deserves to be acknowledged as such, despite not having found its way into web publication thus far.
Thanks for your consideration (and keep up the good work on prime-related pages!)
--71.56.181.243 13:29, 20 January 2006 (UTC) Markov
- You make some good points. You're right that "Google does not contain all of human knowledge." In this case, Google might not contain a link to a professional mathematician's paper which uses the term "primutation" to mean "permutable prime," because maybe that paper has appeared in a print journal but not online. And if there is such a paper by professional mathematician, please re-add "primutation" back to the article, along with a bibliographic note in either APA or MLA style. PrimeFan 00:42, 21 January 2006 (UTC)
