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primes

Fun with prime numbers!

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What it is

Fun with prime numbers!

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 5:04:57 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by hour3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-05-19 00:08:14 UTC to 2018-05-19 17:43:21 UTC.

012018-05-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 01:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 19, 00:002018-05-19 01:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 02:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-19 02:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 03:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-19 03:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 04:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-19 04:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 05:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-19 05:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 06:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-19 06:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 07:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-19 07:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 08:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-19 08:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 09:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsMay 19, 08:002018-05-19 09:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 10:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-19 10:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 11:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-19 11:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 12:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-19 12:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 13:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-19 13:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 14:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-19 14:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 15:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-19 15:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 16:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-05-19 16:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 17:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2018-05-19 17:00:00 UTC to 2018-05-19 18:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsMay 19, 17:00

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May 19, 00:002018-05-19 00:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 01:00:00 UTC101
May 19, 01:002018-05-19 01:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 02:00:00 UTC000
May 19, 02:002018-05-19 02:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 03:00:00 UTC000
May 19, 03:002018-05-19 03:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 04:00:00 UTC000
May 19, 04:002018-05-19 04:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 05:00:00 UTC000
May 19, 05:002018-05-19 05:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 06:00:00 UTC000
May 19, 06:002018-05-19 06:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 07:00:00 UTC000
May 19, 07:002018-05-19 07:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 08:00:00 UTC000
May 19, 08:002018-05-19 08:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 09:00:00 UTC000
May 19, 09:002018-05-19 09:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 10:00:00 UTC000
May 19, 10:002018-05-19 10:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 11:00:00 UTC000
May 19, 11:002018-05-19 11:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 12:00:00 UTC000
May 19, 12:002018-05-19 12:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 13:00:00 UTC000
May 19, 13:002018-05-19 13:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 14:00:00 UTC000
May 19, 14:002018-05-19 14:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 15:00:00 UTC000
May 19, 15:002018-05-19 15:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 16:00:00 UTC000
May 19, 16:002018-05-19 16:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 17:00:00 UTC101
May 19, 17:002018-05-19 17:00:00 UTC2018-05-19 18:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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UPDATE - Saturday May 19 The drawing has been updated on the blog post cited above; there was an error in the description of it, this has been clarified and the code has been updated as well Join the Telegram group to discuss: https://t.me/joinchat/G8AnchIna2q8yn1lGHirkA Note that Even and Odd Values of N have a very different pattern. For example try using the values 99 and 99, and then 100 and 100, in this HTML PREVIEW VERSION: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/acmegeek/p... CODE TO TRY: Javascript https://beta.observablehq.com/@montyxcantsin/unwinding-the-u... Mathematica https://github.com/shaunxcode/a-pattern-in-the-primes Perl https://www.dropbox.com/s/z5tfub5geyuctex/prime-draw.pl?dl=0 EXPLANATION: In short, actually there are some curious patterns in this, and they are not simply equivalent to OEIS A054521 (as we
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, and others, initially thought they were). For even values of n, they seem to approach the OEIS A054521 sequence as n increases. But for odd values the pattern is different and OEIS A054521 doesn't describe it at all. More discussion of this on the Telegram group...
In An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression
UPDATE - Saturday May 19 Join the Telegram group to discuss: https://t.me/joinchat/G8AnchIna2q8yn1lGHirkA Note that Even and Odd Values of N have a very different pattern. For example try using the values 99 and 99, and then 100 and 100, in this HTML preview version: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/acmegeek/p... Here is animation of increasing even values of N approaching GCD: https://streamable.com/l7r96 CODE TO TRY: Javascript https://beta.observablehq.com/@montyxcantsin/unwinding-the-u.... Mathematica https://github.com/shaunxcode/a-pattern-in-the-primes Perl https://www.dropbox.com/s/z5tfub5geyuctex/prime-draw.pl?dl=0 EXPLANATION: In short, actually there are some curious patterns in this, and they are not simply equivalent to OEIS A054521 (as we, and others, initially thought they were). For even values of n, they
Read the rest
can be rendered by the GCD sequence, without the primality testing. But for odd values the pattern is different and GCD doesn't describe it.
In An Interesting Pattern in the Prime Numbers: Parallax Compression

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