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Seconding this. My very basic understanding was that you propagate a wave with a frequency of the first integer, then overlay another wave of the next, and so o
by lordgrenville 6y ago
Seconding this. My very basic understanding was that you propagate a wave with a frequency of the first integer, then overlay another wave of the next, and so on. As you go up, eventually the primes appear as the only place where they interfere with each other completely so the wave is at 0.
- posix_compliant 6y agoThis is describing the sieve of eratosthenes! Very cool.