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Re: Prime Gaps at Most 186

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Post by ks2048 » Thu, Sep 03, 2026, 10:35 PM UTC

quuxplusone wrote: post #8

What is this AI-generated gobbledygook actually trying to say? That there are infinitely many pairs of primes p,q with q=p+186? The first equation under "The result" seems to be saying they found an infinite sequence of primes whose density is forever greater than 1/186, which doesn't match my understanding of how prime density works.

I think it is talking about the existance of close primes, rather than the densitiy of close primes.

Re: Prime Gaps at Most 186

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Post by marysminefnuf » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 5:25 AM UTC

??? this is unreadable lol. i feel like i understand the math behind it but the writing is so unintelligible that i dont even care about the results.

Re: Prime Gaps at Most 186

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Post by palmotea » Fri, Sep 04, 2026, 7:14 AM UTC

marysminefnuf wrote: post #12

??? this is unreadable lol. i feel like i understand the math behind it but the writing is so unintelligible that i dont even care about the results.

> ??? this is unreadable lol. i feel like i understand the math behind it but the writing is so unintelligible that i dont even care about the results.

Who cares, partially no one understands advanced math, and even fewer will one we replace mathematicians with AI.

This just proves that OpenAI is awesome, the value of brains is dropping precipitously, and Sam Altman needs to be made into a trillionare.