19
This number is a prime.
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The Fractran algorithm (John Horton Conway's prime-producing machine) is an interesting but terribly inefficient way to generate prime numbers. It requires 19 steps to compute the first prime, 2.
Submitted: 2006-08-15 03:33:51; Last Modified: 2009-02-26 02:47:00.
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