[decimon]

Yeah, but sub-prime numbers qualify for TARP funds.

[TMSuchman]

Just goes to show that we can find GOD in the smallest of places.

[CodeToad]

lol!

[Batrachian]

It would be wrong of me to describe something that I don’t understand as worthless, because what do I know? Well, at least this little study didn’t cost me anything. I hope.

[PapaBear3625]

Besides providing insight into the nature of primes, the finding could also have applications in areas such as fraud detection and stock market analysis.

And also in cryptography, relating to Public Key Encryption. It might be that it wasn't unnoticed, but the notice was just in classified papers.

[PackerBoy]

This is hugh. I am series.

[Verginius Rufus]

Actually, Al Gore made this discovery, but being the modest guy that he is, decided to let someone else get the credit.

[devere]

“Since the late ‘70s, researchers have known that prime numbers themselves, when taken in very large data sets, are not distributed according to Benford’s law. Instead, the first digit distribution of primes seems to be approximately uniform. However, as Luque and Lacasa point out, smaller data sets (intervals) of primes exhibit a clear bias in first digit distribution. The researchers noticed another pattern: the larger the data set of primes they analyzed, the more closely the first digit distribution approached uniformity. In light of this, the researchers wondered if there existed any pattern underlying the trend toward uniformity as the prime interval increases to infinity.”

You mean all the prime numbers between 900000 and 999999 all start with 9? I never would have guessed that! How much of my tax money was used to finance the discovery of this completely obvious result?

[Lancey Howard]

I love this stuff.
Ever since I first trisected an angle with just a compass and a straightedge, I’ve loved this stuff.

[SuziQ]

PING!

[Hot Tabasco]

They found that the distribution of the leading digit in the prime number sequence can be described by a generalization of Benford’s law.

I've been saying that for years but nobody listened to me.........

[headsonpikes]

This entire article is a series of mere tautologies!

What a gyp!

[SunkenCiv]

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... ;')

Thanks decimon. Looks like I'd better dust my collection of nontrivial Riemann zeta zeros, in case all the freakin' mathmeticians show up. Perdogg, note that last sentence in the excerpt.

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[caver]

That clears that up. I had been wondering, aimlessly.

[Revolting cat!]

Numbers are no longer what they used to be in their prime!

[Travis McGee]

Just as I always suspected.

(Just kidding. I have no idea what they are talking about.)

[Straight Vermonter]

ping

[grey_whiskers]

*PING*

[Myrddin]

The observed patterns may well impact the security of public key encryption e.g. RSA that depends on the product of two large prime numbers.