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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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.
Not prime but sweet.
Two can be as bad as one...
1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 27, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43,...
27?
This has implications for the security of public key cryptography.
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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.
1,2,3,5,7,11,13,17,19,23,29,31,37,41,43,47,53,59,61...
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.
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. :-)
“Ill have to put that question on my Match.com profile to ask woman before I talk to them!”
English is hard too.
“i liked math, but then it started to get harder...” —Obama
Code breakers.
It’s my lucky number. I didn’t want to share it.
I hate to break it to ya, but one is not a prime number.
Outigers by comparison are very small.
Western Civilization would have been so much better off if it had stayed with Roman numerals.
‘One is the loneliest number that youll ever do’
Kind of ironic that it took three to determine that.
Uh... Whut?
Yah, but long division is a bugger.
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