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Yep - we are not claiming to be mathematicians, we're pattern hunters... this is an open invitation to others with more expertise to chime in and help figure this out... it's possible it is a minor discovery or even not a discovery... or it could be useful or even very useful. We don't know. Please help us explore it!
If so this could be a huge blow to security.
But I must say this is amazing that they were able to visualize prime numbers in this way. These guys are geniuses.
The pattern looks nice, but I would have asked some mathematicians before announcing this as something novel.
The blog post serves that function.
My gut sense is that this has something to do with visualizing the sieve of Eratosthenes, and nothing more than that. But I'd be happy to hear otherwise.
- The right edge of the triangle is always red (ie, no primes present), because it represents (row number) * (3* (row number)+[1..6])
- Prime numbered rows are always black (except the far right column). I can sort of feel why this is true but can't express it mathematically yet.
Edit: The link was changed to a group (at the bottom of the post).
Is there are particular reasoning or meaning to each dot being 6 numbers? Is there any significant changes if you pick other numbers per dot, following the same pattern? Based on the linked explanation here: https://beta.observablehq.com/@montyxcantsin/unwinding-the-u...
The Ulam Spiral: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral