Monday, March 14, 2016

Social Media News: Mathematicians Discover A Conspiracy In Prime Numbers


Mathematicians Discover A Conspiracy In Prime Numbers
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Two mathematicians have uncovered a simple, previously unnoticed property of prime numbers — those numbers that are divisible only by 1 and themselves. Prime numbers, it seems, have decided preferences about the final digits of the primes that immediately follow them. Among the first billion prime numbers, for instance, a prime ending in 9 is almost 65 percent more likely to be followed by a prime ending in 1 than another prime ending in 9. In a paper posted online today, Kannan Soundararajan Read the full story


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