On not proving the twin prime conjecture with AutoCAD

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As an HVAC engineer by trade, [Carlos Paris] spends a lot of time in AutoCAD designing all those hidden pipes, tubes, and ducts hidden in a building's rafters. One day, [Carlos] read of an open contest - the prize was over a million dollars - to generate a prime number with a billion digits. [Carlos] misheard this as, 'a prime number greater than one billion' and of course said this was a … [Read more...]