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I apologize for the naivete of my question, but I am not a mathematician. Having read a few books on Riemann and prime numbers, I have this question: Does...
5 Mar 20, 2007
3:22 pm

Joshua Zucker
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I look in a different way at primes then members here do. I am not good in math, but thats not the reason. Its interesting to look at primes as a non...
1 Mar 19, 2007
10:32 pm

maartenvanthiel
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I would thank Some comment of the members from the group to the sequence OEIS A126933. Xordan...
2 Mar 19, 2007
3:07 am

Phil Carmody
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Let be product = 2/3 * 7/5 * 11/13 * 19/17 * ... * p(n)/p(n+1) * p(n+3)/p(n+2) * ... I thought, product would be = 1, but obviously it is not. After 2*10^7 ...
1 Mar 18, 2007
2:45 pm

Werner D. Sand
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Ever heard of that? Just read about it in the newspaper. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishango_bone Maarten...
1 Mar 18, 2007
1:40 pm

maartenvanthiel
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... What's the size of Pn#? (See http://primes.utm.edu/glossary/page.php?sort=Primorial ) Therefore what's the expected density of primes around an arbitrary...
2 Mar 16, 2007
5:13 pm

Werner D. Sand
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who can give me a twin primes table below 1024 bits,or an address, thank you!...
3 Mar 15, 2007
9:11 pm

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Hi, The following comments were published on the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences : A000040 : prime numbers There is a unique decomposition of the...
6 Mar 15, 2007
9:13 am

reismann@...
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Below is a little program for factoring prime pairs. It should be noted that it is quite slow and doesn't always work as it sometimes get's stuck in cycle....
1 Mar 11, 2007
2:40 pm

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I tried to submit the PRP 6*1*(2^216091 - 1 - 1) + 2^216091 - 1 + 2^(2*149), (digits: 65051), which is of the form p + *n*(p -1), but the submission was...
4 Mar 4, 2007
8:04 pm

Mike Oakes
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Can anyone tell me the highest value of n for which it is known that Goldbach holds? Thanks, Tom...
3 Mar 3, 2007
12:03 pm

Jens Kruse Andersen
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What do you think about the so-called proof of the Goldbach Conjecture by Jinzhu and Zaizhu Han? http://arxiv.org/ftp/math/papers/0701/0701235.pdf...
4 Mar 3, 2007
11:59 am

Jens Kruse Andersen
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I found and corrected more errors w/the predicting Ii(x) function... and the last and best calculation for x= 1000 was... .... . .. .. .. .. . ...... 7918.5...
1 Mar 1, 2007
8:32 pm

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Did you know that the sum of the prime numbers less or equal x is asymptotically equal to the number of primes up to x²? Generally: sum(p^r)(p=2…x) ~...
2 Feb 28, 2007
9:49 pm

Werner D. Sand
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Hello, Group. a new function Ii(x) for... predicting the xth prime number, accurately, given the number x: without proof, just an exercise in calculation. it...
3 Feb 27, 2007
11:35 pm

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Hello, Group. go to the primecalculations yahoo group to see some interesting formulas two years of hard work finally paid off... enjoy! Regards, Bill...
1 Feb 26, 2007
1:52 pm

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Does anyone have a list of base 3 primes or base 4 primes or where I could find one? I'm looking for primes of the form k*3^n+/-1 and k*4^n+/-1 for k < 2^32...
2 Feb 25, 2007
3:10 pm

Robert
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Compute all fractions F[1], F[2]....using only prime denominators and numerators for all primes up to prime=p and order the fractions. For example for p=7, the...
4 Feb 24, 2007
7:01 pm

Jens Kruse Andersen
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One way to describe this factorization approach is: Select a polynomial f(w) such that f(2) = z, the number to be factored. I chose the base 2 representation...
1 Feb 24, 2007
5:19 pm

Kermit Rose
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The following PRP's produce a prime number gap of 398,370 10^14173+347173 10^14173-51197 Milton L. Brown miltbrown AT earthlink.net [Moderators note:...
2 Feb 24, 2007
12:23 am

Jens Kruse Andersen
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Hi to all, How does one test primality of a series like 1 + 2 + 2^2 + 2^3 + ... + 2^(2*n - 1), for example, using primeform? Thank you. Peter....
7 Feb 22, 2007
8:10 am

plesala
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I think , the AP23 468395662504823 + 205619·23#·n from Jaroslaw Wroblewski is for n=1..23 (AP24 0..23) is a little bit larger than AP23 in list,or ? best...
2 Feb 22, 2007
2:01 am

Jens Kruse Andersen
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That should have been to the list... ... AFAIK 1 + 2 + 2^2 equals 7... Maybe the original poster meant the sequence to start with something else than 1 + 2 +...
2 Feb 21, 2007
5:50 pm

Jens Kruse Andersen
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Could I trouble someone to post the following papers to the list? I don't have any access to these journals. Chen, J. R. "On the Representation of a Large...
4 Feb 20, 2007
5:08 pm

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Hi, Prof. CC. maximal gap either above or below a number x: without proof, probably already known... just a my idea of a postulate, axiom, etc. concerning gaps...
1 Feb 20, 2007
1:53 pm

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Does any one have a good explanation of why there is so much commonallity in the primes of different Carmichael Numbers? For example: 10024561-1 =...
3 Feb 19, 2007
10:59 pm

Phil Carmody
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Hi, Group. O.K. only better than Li(x);forget trying to prove RH. just an exposition... don't get upset... easy Prof. Caldwell a new summation formula Ki(x)...
3 Feb 19, 2007
10:57 pm

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Hi, Group. I recently read about an attempt at proving something better than RH by an English professor in 1999. He tried to determine whether |pi(x) - Li(x)|...
3 Feb 18, 2007
9:22 pm

Chris Caldwell
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Hello all: I have found this identity with floor function: 2Floor[(n-1)/2]+Sum[Floor[n/i]*Floor[n/(n-i)],{i,1,n-1}]= Sum[Floor[n/i]+Floor[n/(n-i)],{i,1,n-1}] ...
1 Feb 17, 2007
3:06 pm

Sebastian Martin
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Pattern, Symmetry To all who don't see any pattern in the distribution of the prime numbers: 73 1/3 % of the integers are divisible by 2 or 3 or 5. Thus ...
11 Feb 17, 2007
11:53 am

Werner D. Sand
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