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New Pattern Found in Prime Numbers
PhysOrg.com ^
| May 8th, 2009
| Lisa Zyga
Posted on 05/10/2009 5:17:09 PM PDT by decimon
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Yeah, but sub-prime numbers qualify for TARP funds.
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posted on
05/10/2009 5:17:09 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
Just goes to show that we can find GOD in the smallest of places.
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posted on
05/10/2009 5:21:55 PM PDT
by
TMSuchman
(I'll heat up & bring the tar, you bring the feathers & we'll meet in DC!)
To: decimon
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posted on
05/10/2009 5:22:00 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
(If it weren't for physics and law enforcement I'd be unstoppable!)
To: decimon
It would be wrong of me to describe something that I don’t understand as worthless, because what do I know? Well, at least this little study didn’t cost me anything. I hope.
To: decimon
Besides providing insight into the nature of primes, the finding could also have applications in areas such as fraud detection and stock market analysis. And also in cryptography, relating to Public Key Encryption. It might be that it wasn't unnoticed, but the notice was just in classified papers.
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posted on
05/10/2009 5:25:00 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
To: Batrachian
It would be wrong of me to describe something that I don’t understand as worthless...Are you joking? Don't you realize what advanced derivative securities can be...derived from this?
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posted on
05/10/2009 5:26:34 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: decimon
This is hugh. I am series.
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posted on
05/10/2009 5:27:59 PM PDT
by
PackerBoy
(Just my opinion ....)
To: TMSuchman
That’s the first thing I thought.
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posted on
05/10/2009 5:30:06 PM PDT
by
Crawdad
(If you're in a fair fight, your tactics suck.)
To: PackerBoy
I am series.Quite a claim in a math thread.
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posted on
05/10/2009 5:30:52 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: PackerBoy
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posted on
05/10/2009 5:32:53 PM PDT
by
Keith in Iowa
(ESPN MNF: 3 Putzes talking about football on TV while I'm trying to watch a game.)
To: TMSuchman
Just goes to show that we can find GOD in the smallest of places. Have you been there? How small is the university exactly?
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain
I doubt God hangs out in a Spanish university, but who knows?
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posted on
05/10/2009 5:32:54 PM PDT
by
humblegunner
(Where my PIE at, fool?)
To: decimon
>>I am series.
>
>Quite a claim in a math thread.
Not unlike “I Am Legend”
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posted on
05/10/2009 5:32:56 PM PDT
by
OneWingedShark
(Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
To: PapaBear3625
Closer than you think. Diffie knew.
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posted on
05/10/2009 5:34:07 PM PDT
by
Squantos
(Be polite. Be professional. But have a plan to kill everyone you meet)
To: OneWingedShark
Not unlike “I Am Legend”Well, he didn't claim to be Infinite Series.
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05/10/2009 5:38:39 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: PapaBear3625
And also in cryptography, relating to Public Key Encryption. It might be that it wasn't unnoticed, but the notice was just in classified papers. Well, it seems to me that this application to Public Key Encryption means that Public Key Encryption will be useless. If prime numbers can be predicted, then the encryption is broken.
As I recall, Public Key Encryption relies on the multiplication of two very large prime numbers. As things used to stand, it was impossible to predict where those primes fall in the sequence of integers. If now there is some algorithm that can predict where those primes exist, them it would be possible to use that algorithm to break the public key. Good-bye security.
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posted on
05/10/2009 5:43:34 PM PDT
by
stripes1776
("That if gold rust, what shall iron do?" --Chaucer)
To: decimon
Actually, Al Gore made this discovery, but being the modest guy that he is, decided to let someone else get the credit.
To: decimon
“Since the late ‘70s, researchers have known that prime numbers themselves, when taken in very large data sets, are not distributed according to Benford’s law. Instead, the first digit distribution of primes seems to be approximately uniform. However, as Luque and Lacasa point out, smaller data sets (intervals) of primes exhibit a clear bias in first digit distribution. The researchers noticed another pattern: the larger the data set of primes they analyzed, the more closely the first digit distribution approached uniformity. In light of this, the researchers wondered if there existed any pattern underlying the trend toward uniformity as the prime interval increases to infinity.”
You mean all the prime numbers between 900000 and 999999 all start with 9? I never would have guessed that! How much of my tax money was used to finance the discovery of this completely obvious result?
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posted on
05/10/2009 5:52:33 PM PDT
by
devere
To: decimon
I love this stuff.
Ever since I first trisected an angle with just a compass and a straightedge, I’ve loved this stuff.
To: devere
How much of my tax money was used to finance the discovery of this completely obvious result?Que?
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posted on
05/10/2009 6:02:57 PM PDT
by
decimon
To: PapaBear3625
And also in cryptography, relating to Public Key Encryption. It might be that it wasn't unnoticed, but the notice was just in classified papers. Ding, ding, ding - we have a winnah!
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posted on
05/10/2009 6:04:03 PM PDT
by
GOPJ
(If Nixon had been a Democrat, Woodward and Bernstein would have been Linda Tripp.)
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