Posted on 05/10/2009 5:17:09 PM PDT by decimon
In a recent study, Bartolo Luque and Lucas Lacasa of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid in Spain have discovered a new pattern in primes that has surprisingly gone unnoticed until now. They found that the distribution of the leading digit in the prime number sequence can be described by a generalization of Benford’s law. In addition, this same pattern also appears in another number sequence, that of the leading digits of nontrivial Riemann zeta zeros, which is known to be related to the distribution of primes. Besides providing insight into the nature of primes, the finding could also have applications in areas such as fraud detection and stock market analysis.
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I posted this just for you, guy. ;-)
Then again, no one expected the Spanish Inquisition...
Please explain, in layman’s language, why it is huge. Thank you.
PING!
Exactly. There is so much order in everything, how people can miss out on WHO put it there is beyond me.
Just before you squared the circle, right?
ping
I've been saying that for years but nobody listened to me.........
Geniuses are rarely recognized in their time.
Tell me, why did Riemann Zeta Zeros marry Michael Douglas.
Hmm... If I’m not mistaken, some public-key crypto systems are based on large primes... If you found a way of generating a lot of large primes in a reasonable amount of time, you might be able to “attack” some of these crypto systems... Warning, that is based on a vague memory about a PK system... May not be in use anymore, may not apply... Probably the engineer/computer geek in me, but I think this is kind of interesting...
This entire article is a series of mere tautologies!
What a gyp!
They ran out of slackologies.
the distribution of the leading digit in the prime number sequence can be described by a generalization of Benford's law. In addition, this same pattern also appears in another number sequence, that of the leading digits of nontrivial Riemann zeta zeros, which is known to be related to the distribution of primes. Besides providing insight into the nature of primes, the finding could also have applications in areas such as fraud detection and stock market analysis."I learned this in college thirty years ago" in 3, 2, 1... ;')
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No. Can't be done. It's pi in the sky.
That clears that up. I had been wondering, aimlessly.
Numbers are no longer what they used to be in their prime!
Have you heard of the movie Pi? A very strange movie about an agnostic Jew mathematical genius living in NY. As a boy he stared into the sun despite his mothers warning and suffered horrible headache for the rest of his life. He also saw patterns in the light from the sun. He was working on using prime numbers to see patterns in the stock market to predict the next days numbers.
He met an Orthodox Jew in a deli and they began talking about Torah numerology in the Hebrew language. Eventually he was told of the 216 numbers of G_d. His computer program spit out the numbers and the Jews were after him for the numbers(along with the bankers). He escaped the bankers by the help of the Jews, and a Rabbi demanded he give them the numbers.
He told them, you are not ready. I understand what the numbers mean and you are not ready. He then went home and drilled a hole in his head.
Just as I always suspected.
(Just kidding. I have no idea what they are talking about.)
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