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Very cool to see this! It turns out my wife and I bought Andy Barto’s (and his wife’s) house.

During the process, there was a bidding war. They said “make your prime offer” so, knowing he was a mathematician, we made an offer that was a prime number :-)

So neat to see him be recognized for his work.




Ha haa, that is fantastic. You should have joked and said - "I'd like to keep things even between us, how about $2?"


> we made an offer that was a prime number

$12345678910987654321?


This is a crazy story!! Hahaha wow. What was the prime number?




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