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[veloxsouth]

I am certain that the OP was just doing homework and needed the prime factors of 1705542, but knew Dana would answer this way.

[mco]

Thanks to people like Dana, we have found the most efficient way to get answers for homework from the internet: say something blatantly wrong, and wait for someone to correct you.

[Liam-ck]

The real Quora experience is forever getting your email spammed with their emails.

[robertstevensii]

A simple "it's divisible by 2" would have sufficed 😂

[pbertandjelly]

i love the contrast of dana's answer to her bio. just a hobby you know

[josephforte]

with all due respect to Dana, how about the simple fact that it's an even number greater than 2 lmao

[jaxonsevero]

The “I’m abusing my child and they don’t like me” side of Quora is the best

[wfjhDUI]

It's been amazing to witness Quora's descent from the early days where well-known public figures were answering interesting questions to the last few years where it's become the new Yahoo Answers.

[MichaelXX]

The real quora experience is "By continuing I agree that I am at least 13 years old and agree to Quora’s Terms of Service and Privacy Policy."

[JimmyBoosterCrate]

OP probably meant that, due to a flaw, he can use the RH to prove that 1705542 is prime, even though it's obviously not. But this is too epic lmao

[Amenomihashira]

Dana: Just interested in math is all. Kinda a hobby.
Also Dana: Author has *9.8K answers* and *6.2M answer views*

[grougrouhh]

I love that the guy went for an even number haha

"im only 12 and already won the nobel prize in physics. am I a failure?"

[MrJuliankilla]

The quora experience is also when someone asks a hypothetical question like what if the moon crashed into the earth and some moron is always like “well that’s not possible and is never going to happen” like wow great answer

[supermarc]

After this they got so discouraged that we will never see their genius counterexample to the Riemann Hypothesis; truly a tragic day for mathematics.

[kevinsonofdad]

"the best way to get a correct answer on the internet is to post the incorrect one"

[prowers]

Quora be like:
"My son gets straight A's but I found him playing video games for more than 1 hour per day, so I broke his console, beat him with a pole, locked him in a dark room for 3 days and forced him to sell his left kidney. Am I a bad parent?"

[Sen-ki-]

The funny part is that OP wasn't actually wrong. They didn't say that 1705542 was prime, but that by using Riemann's Hypothesis he could prove it while in reality it isn't. This would pinpoint a flaw in Riemann's Hypothesis, hope he somehow managed to get that published.

[diegovasquez]

Everything about this is perfect: the amateur mathematician claiming a counterexample of the Riemann hypothesis, the “authority” thundering down with a condescending response that completely misses the point of the post, his description as “just interested in math is all.” It’s all perfect

Edit: 189 replies dear god

[peteck]

One of the most hilarious questions that I read recently was,
_"I caught my 17-year-old daughter eating Chinese food so I'm sending her away to China for 5 months and she won't stop crying. What do I do?"_