floofloof@lemmy.ca to A place for everything about math@lemmy.mlEnglish · 10 months agoSimple formula makes prime numbers easy, but a million-dollar mystery remainswww.scientificamerican.comexternal-linkmessage-square5fedilinkarrow-up111arrow-down10
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minus-squareyewler@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 months agoIt’s a Sieve of Eratosthsenes in disguise. It’s pretty clever from what I remember, but I don’t recall all the details.
It’s a Sieve of Eratosthsenes in disguise. It’s pretty clever from what I remember, but I don’t recall all the details.