English words that are prime when interpreted as base 36 numbers - "Animation" is prime, for example. Sentences made up with primes would be fun, or even a book. - Michael Nielsen

... that is inspired nerdiness. - D0r0th34

All hail the Nerd King/Queen (is "Chris" a boy or girl?) - Bill Hooker

DISHEARTENMENT at Steve not being prime. Prime isn't prime, but PRIMETEST is. *** So are PUMPKIN and HALLOWEEN *** spooooky - Steve Koch

Now I want to see all the primes spelled out in base36. Gotta be some new words we could use. What proportion of primes do not have a digit 0-9 in base 36? Base 35? Base N? Sounds like a theorem. Why would I not be surprised if it's already been derived? - Steve Koch

http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc... Here's a google spreadsheet for converting base 36 words into base 10. Can you guess who's supposed to be working on a proposal tonight? - Steve Koch

LOL, Steve. I learnt the Dvorak keyboard and wrote an experimental physics paper (I'm a theorist) to avoid working on my dissertation, oh so many years ago.... - Michael Nielsen