Five Minutes of Prime Time
16 hours ago
- The author worked at RSA in 2008, where nerd culture thrived with discussions on prime numbers, combinatorics, and puzzles.
- HR organized monthly games; one challenge was to list all prime numbers between 1 and 1000 in 5 minutes.
- The author's team copied the list from a mobile phone and won the cash prize with all 168 primes correct.
- Another team also copied but omitted some numbers to avoid looking like they cheated, though no rules were broken.
- The team spent the prize on pizza and drinks for everyone; the author remembers this silly game vividly despite other games being more interesting.