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"Remarkable" Pattern Discovered Behind Prime Numbers, Math's Most Unpredictable Objects (www.iflscience.com)
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can't really follow the math but makes a nice picture.

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[–] lurch@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

holy cow, that article is like 95% filler. this is the relevant part:

It’s only now, however, that Ono and his teammates have noticed something incredible: that “the prime numbers […] are the solutions of infinitely many special ‘Diophantine equations’ in well-studied partition functions,” they explain in their new paper.