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I'm also fascinated in the psychology of belief.
Philosophically a skeptic, but I don't attend their services :-)
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(Actually I just realised you meant "buy")
I remember trying a year or so ago and it couldn't. Or badly.
aka the Grothendieck prime!
Or .. maybe you could sell it to them or use it as a lever to get the EU one.
I'd go even further and say most of the world's evils are caused by people with theories that are contrary to evidence. I'd place Marx among these but there's no shortage of examples.
The whole thing reminds me of EST and a thousand other cults / self-improvement / self-actualisation groups that seem endemic to California ever since the 60s or before.
As a kid (~12 year old) I played for matchsticks.
Typically applied to mobile phone plans but applicable to many other markets.
Then again Scott Meyers said he's never written a C++ program professionally.