https://github.com/blittle/prime-workers
https://github.com/blittle/presentations/tree/master/prime-workers AJ ONeal (317) 426-6525 On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 12:57 AM, AJ ONeal <[email protected]> wrote: > This function is plotting prime numbers. > > http://bretlittle.org:5050/ > > The centermost dot is 1 and then it plots concentric squares increasing by > 1 in counter-clockwise fashion. > > Prime numbers are dark navy > numbers with few factors are blue > numbers with several factors are light blue > numbers with a huge number of factors are white > > If you zoom out a few steps and refresh you'll start to see a pattern that > would look really great in a suit if you swapped out the blues for charcoal > grey threads (and as a bonus it'll make your cpu really hot). > > Although you can't look at it and guarantee which numbers will be prime, > it certainly gives you some clear directions in which to guess. > > Has Bret Little brought us 1 step closer to discovering prime numbers > quickly? > > AJ ONeal > > P.S. (he'll be posting the code on github shortly) >
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