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Finding patterns in primes is old news. In the 60's Scientific American had an interesting article about a curious pattern in primes. If you start on a grid a
by mchahn 11y ago
Finding patterns in primes is old news.
In the 60's Scientific American had an interesting article about a curious pattern in primes. If you start on a grid and fill in the integers in a spiral there are obvious patterns of connected primes. I had to try it of course, on grid paper by hand up to a couple of hundred.
- tripzilch 11y agoThis is true, they're called Ulam spirals. But the reasons for these patterns appearing are afaik pretty well understood (I forget exactly how but it wasn't hard to get a grasp of why they are there). Though these patterns are pretty noisy still. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral