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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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[โ€“] m3t00@midwest.social 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

yup. no understanding to be gained. author probably doesn't either. picture looks interesting but no explanation of how it was generated. AI maybe

[โ€“] DemBoSain@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

If you graph prime numbers in various ways, you get artifacts like rays or lines. But it's not related specifically to the prime numbers. They're just caused by the composite numbers erasing straight rows of integers, leaving behind straight rows of primes.