Re:A truly incredible fact about the number 37
by kstrauser on Sunday November 12, 2023 @03:25PM
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I don't think that's right. My reading of it was that 37 is the median prime among all primes.
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Re:A truly incredible fact about the number 37
by gattilorenz on Sunday November 12, 2023 @03:40PM
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I think you’re both expressing the same concept :)
37 is the median factor, it doesn’t mean that 37 is the actual second prime of 50% of numbers. The OP probably missed “median”, I know I did
Re:A truly incredible fact about the number 37
by twelvechairs on Sunday November 12, 2023 @03:48PM
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Original comment said "all primes up to 37" which isn't correct there's no point where 37 is being used as an upper limit
Re:A truly incredible fact about the number 37
by gattilorenz on Sunday November 12, 2023 @03:54PM
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I think that was an intuitive and imprecise way of expressing “median value”, so that 50% of primes are “up to 37”
Re:A truly incredible fact about the number 37
by zelda-mazzy on Sunday November 12, 2023 @09:02PM
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Im going off what the article originally said:
"We see that 37 is the prime where roughly half of all numbers have something less than or equal to 37 as their first prime! So we’ve proven that 37 is the median second prime!"
Re:A truly incredible fact about the number 37
by NooneAtAll3 on Sunday November 12, 2023 @03:55PM
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did the title change or smth?