[FRIAM] Peculiar pattern found in ‘random’ prime numbers : Nature News & Comment

[Owen Densmore]

Kinda fascinating new paper on prime numbers:

Prime numbers near to each other tend to avoid repeating their last digits,
the mathematicians say: that is, a prime that ends in 1 is less likely to
be followed by another ending in 1 than one might expect from a random
sequence. “As soon as I saw the numbers, I could see it was true,” says
mathematician James Maynard of the University of Oxford, UK. “It’s a really
nice result.”

http://www.nature.com/news/peculiar-pattern-found-in-random-prime-numbers-1.19550

​   -- Owen
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