Prime Number Spiral

Re:Prime Number Spiral by christophilus on Sunday January 01, 2017 @07:36PM (#13298284)

I wonder if those lines he mentions are anything like the ones I found in my visualization a while back: http://chrisdavies.github.io/primepattern/

This never led me anywhere, for the record.

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Re:Prime Number Spiral by chei0iaV on Sunday January 01, 2017 @08:21PM (#13298462)

You get the lines because you're lining up all numbers divisible by 2, 3, 5 and 7. You get a very similar pattern with 210, and a sparser one with, for example, 30030.

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Re:Prime Number Spiral by christophilus on Sunday January 01, 2017 @08:23PM (#13298470)

Yes, that's right. I wonder if it's a similar thing showing up in the spiral. Just a simple consequence like the one that causes the lines.

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