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Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night
This paper analyses the novel by Mark Haddon ”The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time”, with the main theme of a clash between a logical mentality and the general social norms in a society. The novel presents it’s readers to the main character Christopher, who has a fascination for math and logical systems, which he invents by and for himself. The main character’s mentality elucidates and underpins a comprehension of an autist’s way of living. Furthermore, will this paper account for the general rules and methods of prime numbers. It will be explaining the theory of the sieve of Eratosthenes and the Euclidean algorithm, which are some efficient methods of identify-ing prime numbers and their greatest common divisor. At last it is

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