[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Robert Betts said: "I meant to add that all the prime numbers are known to be
> distributed randomly--I repeat--randomly along the real line."
>
> Why "randomly" ?
> If I remember well, a set of numbers is random if the shortest way to describe
> it is to provide the list of these numbers (there is no algorithm to compute
> them, and knowing the first N numbers does not help to predict number numbered
> N+1).
[snip]
This is not any of the definitions of randomness I learned when I
was a grad student in Mathematical Probability and Statistics.
Mike
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