Prime number distribution may not be random, as previously thought.

[VirtualLarry]

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/pa8dw8/prime-number-pattern-mimics-crystal-patterns

 

[petrusbroder]

Thanks for an interesting read!

 

[crashtech]

If they are right, that would spell the end for PrimeGrid, right? Also I think cryptography would be in for some changes.

 

[Ken g6]

I asked about this on mersenneforum.org. They gave me a non-paywalled link. It looks like it finds likely primes in ranges where the numbers are "not too large". 10^6 is not too large. PrimeGrid is working on numbers around 10^1000000. That's probably too large.