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forgive my lack of maths to support the intuition, but as we discover ever higher prime numbers the second factor will tend upwards - towards the correct answer
by lifeisstillgood 3y ago
forgive my lack of maths to support the intuition, but as we discover ever higher prime numbers the second factor will tend upwards - towards the correct answer of 42?
- NooneAtAll3 3y agoit's more that when you filter out 37-and-below, the "rest" category as a whole takes ~50% of the numbers
- olejorgenb 3y agoNo, this is not an empirical result. The interesting thing is that this is a fixed number (and that it's quite small). ("After all, about half of *all* integers have 2 as their smallest prime factor" is the beginning of the intuition needed I guess)
- mbfg 3y agonothing worse then when a good joke goes unnoticed.
- narinxas 3y agothe tears of clowns...
- narinxas 3y ago42 must mean both 41 and 43 taken together. these two primes are a twin prime above 37. and 29 and 31 both take together mean 30. the twin pair below 37
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