Talk:Full reptend prime

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Does anybody know the etymology of the term reptend? I could not find it in any dictionary. HannsEwald (talk) 11:03, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

I now believe that the term is in error and should be repetend instead, which comes from Latin repetere and means repeating. Google gives about three times as many hits for repetend as for reptend. I propose to rename this article. HannsEwald (talk) 11:59, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

Google has 338 hits on "full reptend prime" and only 2 on "full repetend prime", so the former is clearly the accepted name for this type of prime. By the way, 1 of the 2 with "repetend" doesn't use that term but is only in the Google hits because the other one links to it with that term. Wikipedia should use the accepted name no matter whether another name might appear to make more sense. See Wikipedia:Naming conventions (common names). PrimeHunter (talk) 12:55, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] long primes & palindromicity

has anyone studied whether all strictly non-palindromic numbers which are prime are also long primes and if their's any connection between these two properties? Numerao (talk) 22:39, 8 March 2008 (UTC)