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Originally Posted by HenrikOlsen
Unless of course it's all about you being unable to back up one single step and note that 1, 4, 9 are the squares of the first 3 natural numbers, which would have made that other thread about something interesting rather than the useless quibble this one is too.
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I was wondering when someone would mention this. As it was a claim in the "marking the Moon thread" it had made me think of the monoliths in "2001 a space odyssey". I assumed that was the inspiration of the idea posted. According to the Wikipedia, the 1 4 9 ratio of the monoliths is the squares of the first three "integers".
This morning I dug out my copy of the book, as I wanted to see if back when it was written Arthur C. Clarke had used "integers" or "Primes" - and in it (my printing by Arrow, dated 1978 (I think)) he does use "integer".