Math with Bad DrawingsCartoon Archive

Lucky Numbers

August 2, 2018

A fortune cookie's 'lucky numbers' slip unrolls into an endless list of primes.

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Free for classrooms, worksheets, slides and other non-commercial use under CC BY-NC 4.0, with credit to Ben Orlin.

Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2018-08-02-lucky-numbers/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Transcript

"YOUR LUCKY NUMBERS: 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31..." (on an endless scroll from a fortune cookie)

Topics
Number Theory › PrimesSets & Infinity › InfinitySequences
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