On: Prime numbers so memorable that people hunt for them

[euroderf]

Why do we care about base 10 ? Because we have five digits per appendage ? BFD. Accident of evolution.

What about palindromes in binary ? That's about as close to a mathematical ideal as we could get. Yes?

Let's see. decimal 11 = binary 1011, its palindrome = 1101 = decimal 13, GOLD!