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Patterns in primes: some Bayesian inference
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoI didn't think this was a particularly deep article, but I wanted to address this quote: > So what? After all, we know that primes are not randomly distributed and become increasingly less common as we progress up the “number line” The point is that yes, of course the primes aren't random, but in many fundamental ways they behave as if they are. Terry Tao explains more: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/biases-between-consecutive-primes/ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2016/03/14/biases-between-con...