Talk:Cuban prime

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Please update this rating as the article progresses, or if the rating is inaccurate. Click to show/hide comments. Please add to or update the comments to suggest improvements to the article. Geometry guy 21:55, 22 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Name

This article could use some clarification... the name doesn't come from cubes, and doesn't come from Cuba, then what does it come from? 8.8.202.167 01:24, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

It comes from cubes as the article says. I have added a reference to http://mathworld.wolfram.com/CubanPrime.html which also says it. However, deriving "cuban" from "cube" doesn't sound normal to me. Maybe the person who named them deliberately made a derivation of "cube" that would become another word, but that's just speculation on my part. PrimeHunter 02:44, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

The most obvious alternative would be "cubic prime," but that makes me think of a number that is both prime and a perfect cube. Even if you accept 1 as a prime number, there would only be one such number. PrimeFan 21:36, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Google found that "cubic prime" [1] is used for the cube of a prime in [2], but maybe the term was invented for the puzzle. PrimeHunter 22:52, 29 June 2007 (UTC)

Interesting. I too am inclined to think that it was invented for the puzzle. PrimeFan 20:44, 30 June 2007 (UTC)