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Re: Mathematicians shocked to find pattern in 'random' prime numbers

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Dr. Jai Maharaj posted:
> 
> Mathematicians shocked to find pattern in 'random' prime numbers
> 
> newscientist.com
> Monday, March 14, 2016
> 
> https://www.newscientist.com/article/2080613-mathematicians-shocked-to-find-pattern-in-random-prime-numbers/

Excerpt:

[...]
Although whether a number is prime or not is pre-
determined, mathematicians don't have a way to predict
which numbers are prime, and so tend to treat them as if
they occur randomly. Now Kannan Soundararajan

http://math.stanford.edu/~ksound/

and Robert Lemke Oliver

http://robert%20lemke%20oliver/

of Stanford University in California have discovered that
isn't quite right.
[...]

Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti

http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj

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Mathematicians shocked to find pattern in 'random' prime numbers alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) - 2016-03-15 21:06 +0000
  Re: Mathematicians shocked to find pattern in 'random' prime numbers "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2016-03-15 18:42 -0700
  Re: Mathematicians shocked to find pattern in 'random' prime numbers alt.fan.jai-maharaj@googlegroups.com (Dr. Jai Maharaj) - 2016-03-16 02:04 +0000

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