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The Strong Law of Small Numbers
There is a thing called the law of small numbers. In fact there's a law of big numbers, but it's all in statistics. The primes never again overlap with the even numbers. But when it comes to the small numbers, there's just not enough fof them to go around. And so you get a lot of overlap. They're like the hospital administrators of the number world. We expect them to be able to do everything that's and to them,. no matter how challenging it iseyone else has got a tough job as well. If they don't do it, the whole thing falls apart.
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