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		dpflan 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Mathematicians discover prime number pattern in fr... Is there a visualization possible of this pattern? For some reason this made me think of the Ulam Spiral -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral.

dkural 5 months ago [–]

It is unrelated to Ulam Spiral. The patterns there are due to various quadratic polynomials generating a finite number of primes, an observation going back to at least the time of Euler.

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