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Mathematicians Are Making Major Breakthroughs In The Understanding Of Prime Numbers
businessinsider.com ^ | Nov. 21, 2013, 3:07 PM | Andy Kiersz

Posted on 11/23/2013 5:57:05 PM PST by BenLurkin

 Most mathematicians have a sense that the twin primes conjecture should be true — the positioning of the prime numbers appear to be more or less random, even though on average the gaps between primes get larger, and if one has an infinitely long list of random odd numbers, we should have an infinite collection of pairs in our list. If at some point, prime numbers are always more than two numbers away from each other, we have a non-random aspect to their distribution that goes against this intuition.

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TOPICS: Science
KEYWORDS: primenumbers; stringtheory
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To: BenLurkin

Isn’t it logical that if there are infinite base systems (base-2 binary, base 16 hexadecimal, etc.) then there ought to be infinite prime numbers?

Our base-10 numbers are just a coincidence that the Indians invented and was adopted worldwide. The Sumerians were doing base-12, but the Indians had the convenient zero.


21 posted on 11/23/2013 6:28:38 PM PST by James C. Bennett (An Australian.)
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To: driftdiver

Not prime but sweet.


22 posted on 11/23/2013 6:32:28 PM PST by DManA (rs)
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To: DManA
One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do.

Two can be as bad as one...

23 posted on 11/23/2013 6:32:29 PM PST by meyer (Who needs gas chambers when you have Obamacare?)
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To: Ramius

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVf5Cr4M-F8


24 posted on 11/23/2013 6:33:45 PM PST by DManA (rs)
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To: Vendome

1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 27, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43,...


25 posted on 11/23/2013 6:33:56 PM PST by meyer (Who needs gas chambers when you have Obamacare?)
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To: meyer

27?


26 posted on 11/23/2013 6:34:58 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: 17th Miss Regt

This has implications for the security of public key cryptography.
++++++++++
It could. But I’m just guessing.

But a question. If you are right, who gets helped - the code makers or the code breakers?

I’m betting the code breakers but, once again, I’m jus guessing.


27 posted on 11/23/2013 6:35:21 PM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: meyer

1,2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47,53,59,61...


28 posted on 11/23/2013 6:43:39 PM PST by HangnJudge
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To: InterceptPoint

The easier it becomes to predict and find prime numbers the harder it is to encrypt information. Well... OK... The easier it is to DEcrypt information.


29 posted on 11/23/2013 6:43:40 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: HangnJudge
27?

OOps!

My excuse - 3 is a democrat and doesn't count. Therefore, numbers that include 3^3 don't aren't non-prime. Or something like that. :-)

30 posted on 11/23/2013 6:45:05 PM PST by meyer (Who needs gas chambers when you have Obamacare?)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

“I’ll have to put that question on my Match.com profile to ask woman before I talk to them!”

English is hard too.


31 posted on 11/23/2013 6:47:14 PM PST by outofsalt ("If History teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything")
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“i liked math, but then it started to get harder...” —Obama


32 posted on 11/23/2013 6:47:59 PM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: InterceptPoint

Code breakers.


33 posted on 11/23/2013 6:49:11 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Ramius; aruanan

It’s my lucky number. I didn’t want to share it.


34 posted on 11/23/2013 6:53:17 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Vendome

I hate to break it to ya, but one is not a prime number.


35 posted on 11/23/2013 6:53:54 PM PST by patton (“Really? Have you tried chewing cloves?”)
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To: Scrambler Bob

Outigers by comparison are very small.


36 posted on 11/23/2013 6:55:25 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
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To: BenLurkin; a fool in paradise

Western Civilization would have been so much better off if it had stayed with Roman numerals.


37 posted on 11/23/2013 6:58:01 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: DManA

‘One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do’

Kind of ironic that it took three to determine that.


38 posted on 11/23/2013 7:04:03 PM PST by Delta Dawn (Fluent in two languages: English and cursive.)
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To: patton
I hate to break it to ya, but one is not a prime number.

Uh... Whut?

39 posted on 11/23/2013 7:04:46 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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To: Revolting cat!
Western Civilization would have been so much better off if it had stayed with Roman numerals.

Yah, but long division is a bugger.

40 posted on 11/23/2013 7:06:20 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us one chance in three. More tea anyone?)
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