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Re: Unexplained, confirmed reoccurring pattern in primes. Explanations?
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May 19, 2012 8:08 AM
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I ran some random statistics on your table and I attach the results here (open with OpenOffice only).
It's interesting that the first row with no prime numbers is n=469. Also, after about the line n=4200 the percentage of prime numbers in each row seems to be 30% (350 primes for each 100 rows) and slowly decreasing. As the rounded percentage closes to 25% (300 primes for each 100 rows), the actual value seems to go more and more random. The amount of primes for each 100 rows should reach 0 at some point, but I have no idea when that would happen.
Therefore, if I name a really big number from your table, for example 42^42 + 1, I have a chance of about 5%-25% to get a prime. This is just a rough estimate though.
I'll move on to research the reason for that 42 loop.
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