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

[glen ☣]

Smells a little like Benford's Law? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benford's_law

On 06/08/2017 09:55 AM, Owen Densmore wrote:
> 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


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