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Re:Peculiar pattern found in 'random' prime numbers by radarsat1 on Monday March 14, 2016 @11:38AM (#11283435)
What is? My question was about whether random numbers can have patterns.

I thought a sort of general definition of patterns was the existence of correlation from one state to another, while the definition of randomness was the lack of the same correlation. So I'm wondering how random numbers can have patterns? It's possible my view of "random numbers" and "patterns" is not sufficiently nuanced.

I have no idea what your comment means in this context.

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Re:Peculiar pattern found in 'random' prime numbers by fahadkhan on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @11:58AM (#11290571)
Sorry I thought the context of your question was "Prime numbers may be generated in deterministic fashion"

Of course you know that random numbers will have a distribution. I think this is an example of that. Most people would have expected a uniform distribution here but it isn't the case.

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