Just What We Needed: a Dodger Math Lesson

In your article on Scott Erickson titled “He’s Got a Prime Number,” I would like to advise you that 15 is not a prime number. A prime number is a number greater than one that is divisible only by itself and one. Fifteen is not prime because it can be divided by three, which is a prime number.

Terry Foley

Norco

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Without names on the Dodger uniforms, how do we know who we are booing?

Marvin Snyder

Los Angeles

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According to the box score in Thursday’s paper, the Dodgers apparently have come up with a really creative approach for dealing with their non-hitting catcher woes -- don’t let your catchers bat at all.

However, a bit of arithmetic leads to the obvious conclusion that, whoever he/they were, the catcher(s) went 0 for 3, and of course were inadvertently omitted from the box score.

Another obvious conclusion is that David Ross had the 0.

Peter Rich

Los Angeles