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Re:A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers by coldtea on Monday March 14, 2016 @09:20PM (#11286824)
>I almost overlooked this article because I got turned off by the opening description in base 10, as there is a lot of math trivia out there that is specific to base 10 which holds little general significance.

If a high school science insight seems to be able to "shoot down" a new scientific discovery, chances are what the discovery says has not really been understood properly.

The property they discovered is orthogonal to numeric base.

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Re:A previously unnoticed property of prime numbers by tikhonj on Monday March 14, 2016 @11:27PM (#11287248)
But if high school science insight seems to shoot down a popular math article, it's probably right. Popular articles on technical subjects (all subjects?) simply aren't very good and trivia involving digits in base-10 is exactly the sort of thing that the popular press loves to fawn over.

I think that's what the original commenter was getting at: it's not that the actual discovery is suspect, it's that the article presenting it was—even though the discovery itself is interesting.

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