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https://www.quantamagazine.org/20160313-mathematicians-discover-prime-conspiracy/
posted by nomise at 2016-03-16 11:15

nomise: eg "...a prime ending in 9 is almost 65 percent more likely to be followed by a prime ending in 1 than another prime ending in 9..."
nomise: and shockingly, "Looking at prime numbers written in base 3 -- in which roughly half the primes end in 1 and half end in 2 -- ...among primes smaller than 1,000, a prime ending in 1 is more than twice as likely to be followed by a prime ending in 2 than by another prime ending in 1. Likewise, a prime ending in 2 prefers to be followed a prime ending in 1."
nomise: "...this sort of bias in the final digits of consecutive primes holds not just in base 3, but also in base 10 and several other bases; they conjecture that it’s true in EVERY BASE..." (emphasis added)
nomise: cutting to the chase, "...primes ending in 3 seem to like being followed by primes ending in 9 more than 1 or 7..."!
nomise: OK, now this is interesting, but why did anyone assume there should be a non-granular, random distribution anyway?
nomise: I mean prime numbers are odd as fuck.
nomise: they're obviously not evenly distributed through the number sequence

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posted by holoirc at 2016-03-16 09:22

holoirc: succinct explanation of the new fascism and why it is doomed
nomise: the thought police are real and they come to us in guise of merchandising consultancy
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