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Leaven was wrong about the trap rooms being prime numbers, so...

posted 11 years ago by Splinter-95
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**SPOILERS**

Was it just a coincidence that they didn't run into traps when she thought she had the pattern figured out?
Because they realise later on in the movie that the real way of finding a trap room is by figuring out the number of factors of the primes, not the actual prime numbers themselves.

She must have been wrong the first time, so it would've still been completely random whether or not they find the traps. Just seems ridiculous to me that they got through so many rooms just by sheer luck until they realised the mistake.

[–] yusef-ghanima 11 years ago

you forgot the boots smarty

[–] zenbudda 11 years ago

well, actually the boots were the "2nd" check. they did not want to keep wasting boots. so the answer is yes, it was coincidence.

[–] yusef-ghanima 11 years ago

minority report is repeated in your list

[–] Snoppkaka 11 years ago

wow. that is the weirdest counter-argument i've seen.

[–] BePatient 11 years ago

A prime has no (integer) factors.

[–] imnicholls 10 years ago

This isn't correct. A prime number is a number which has exactly 2 distinct factors (always being the number 1 and the number itself, which is why 1 is not prime)

The problem with the later discovery about prime factors is that all numbers can be formed from prime factors, since any factor you can come up with is either prime or can be further factorised due to not being prime...

[–] dyld129 11 years ago

The trapped rooms were powers of prime numbers. Rooms with prime numbers are still trapped because prime numbers are prime numbers themselves to the power of one. The reason they wanted to know the number of prime factors is because a power of a prime still only has one prime factor so any number that has more is safe. She wasn't entirely wrong but they did have a little luck.

[–] micael50 9 years ago

Disregard all other answer. The above answer is the answer you are looking for

[–] bobbydallas (8671) 4 years ago

the reason Kazan was helpful is because he could boil down the number to a power prime.
if he said '2' it was safe because the factors were 3 & 7 (for example)

if he said '1' it meant a number like 64, that is a power of only one prime number.