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Re:An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Com... by chickenstrips on Friday May 18, 2018 @03:11PM (#17104121)
No, this won't help with finding primes. As they noted, the pattern for ranges of size k only holds for k lines. So to find a prime of length N (on the order of 2^N), we need to have k=O(2^(N/2)). However, this yields a guarantee that a prime lies in a range of size O(2^(N/2)), which is not particularly useful. We get exponentially better probabilistic results from the prime number theorem.

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