An enthusiastic math student was asked to write a sentence incorporating his new knowledge about prime numbers. Though you could spend time correcting him on his conventions, can you still give him the numerical answer he is looking for?

On 
Tuesday  
ofnext
weekwethought  
ifwewereexperienced 
enoughwecantryto 
stumptheclassineighth 
gradebecausetheysometimes 
rubitinourfacesevertime 
wecantsolveourworkisthatokay? 

(In reply to Confused by Erin)

I tried counting the letters in each line. It started out as primes 2, 7 but then the third number was 6. And there were 16 and 21 letters in later lines. I'm lost.

Posted by TomM on 2002-12-14 17:45:16