Prime Number Patterns

Re:Prime Number Patterns by floatrock on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @12:58PM (#9846617)

> The prime numbers are those that have been intersected by only two curves: the prime number itself and one.

This is merely a prettier but somewhat obfuscated Sieve of Eratosthenes: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_of_Eratosthenes

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Re:Prime Number Patterns by panic on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @04:37PM (#9847936)

It's a richer visualization than that. The Sieve of Eratosthenes only marks which numbers are composite -- this visualization actually shows each of the factors.

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Re:Prime Number Patterns by stillbourne on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @11:39PM (#9849683)

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=1%2F2++%286+n-cos%28pi+...

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Re:Prime Number Patterns by bgilroy26 on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @02:25PM (#9847198)

"Merely" is a word that makes me imagine what might have been if only.

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