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Very cool indeed.  In the comments was a link to an XKCD cartoon.  Its
tool tip mentioned "twin primes".  Looked that up.  Google pointed (of
course) at Wikipedia.  Read that.  Backed up to the Google Search, and
noticed there is a news item from 15 hours ago that an unknown
mathematician at the University of New Hampshire has proven the twin
primes conjecture:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/twin-primes/

This is nothing to do with the original post.  It's just amazing to me
how short the distance between one very interesting topic on the net
and something almost unrelated can be.

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