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Line 2: Presumably any positive value of the index indicates crankiness. Chris Caldwell's [[Prime Pages]] has a version adapted to [[prime number]] research<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://primes.utm.edu/notes/crackpot.html \|title= ''The PrimeNumbers' Crackpot index'' \|accessmonthday= October 23 \|accessdaymonth= \|accessyear= 2007\|author=Chris Caldwell}}</ref> which is a field with many famous unsolved problems that are easy to understand for amateur mathematicians. ==See also== Line 8 ⟶ 10: * [[Pseudophysics]] * [[Crank (person)]] ==References== <references/> ==External links== * [[John Baez]], [http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html ''The crackpot index questionnaire'']. [[Category:Humor]]

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