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After you read about Ramanujan... https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/sjmiller/public_html/math/papers/Amersi-Miller-CANT2011arxiv.pdf https://web.williams.ed
by ForOldHack 2y ago
After you read about Ramanujan...
https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/sjmiller/public_html/math/papers/Amersi-Miller-CANT2011arxiv.pdf https://web.williams.edu/Mathematics/sjmiller/public_html/ma...
To be honest, I have a degree in math, and struggle to understand the extreme difficulty in assessing the density of primes.
- gloria_mundi 2y agoI haven't read all of that, but the problem at hand seems significantly less complicated. We're mapping the numbers from 1 to 1000 to distinct numbers up to 8258, and the README claims that we should expect 2.1% of the resulting numbers to be prime. I see no reason for this claim, and as I understand it, the 2.1% comes from pi(1000) / 8258, which seems like nonsense to me.
- keepamovin 2y agoI don’t remember the 2.1% thing, it could be an error, I don’t know. I just remember the density of primes was higher: but your explanation accounts for that — well done — because it filters out.