fucking prime numbers man what do they mean?
Fucking prime numbers man what do they mean?
Gabriel Reed
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Owen Peterson
they're numbers without factors
Tyler Phillips
LOL
consider suicide
Blake Taylor
No one knows.
They represent a structure in the integers that is hard to understand.
When we expand upon our numbers, we can get different looks at the primes or parts of the primes, like gaussian primes.
We are slowly understanding more and more.
Your question is analogous to asking what do even numbers mean.
Well...it depends on the context. They have a clear formal definition. In real life situations, they mean something like if there are an even number of something they can be shared between two people, for example. I doubt they have any particular meaning in physics, etc...
For primes, math based around them do have meanings in physics. This deeper meaning is probably what you are asking and it is a hard thing to answer due to how layered practical math is on top of prime numbers.
However, it is very likely the structure provided by prime numbers is necessary for most important properties in math and thus any resulting use of math in physics and thus any useful description of the world.
Jonathan Gomez
They are the only "real" numbers
Liam Mitchell
I meant to point out, a mathematical result useful in physics is something like use of p-adic numbers in physics: en.wikipedia.org
Without primes, this would not make sense.
Josiah Ramirez
Prime numbers are both predictable and unpredictable. Predictable in that, given a number, one can classify the number as prime or not. Unpredictable in that it's difficult to find the next prime number without brute force checking.
Any number sequence has a set of defined features that are strictly followed. For example 2, 4, 6, 8 have the features that they are even. 3, 5, 7, are odd.
The feature of a prime number is that it cannot be divisible by any number less that it. This might seem easy at first but to clearly define this feature requires that the list of features be increasing each time a new prime number is found. And so this list of features is always increasing and not constant.
Elijah Roberts
numbers are the classes of all classes that are similar to each other, it's not a mystery.
Caleb Gonzalez
Numbers are usually viewed that way, but primeness is not unique to numbers.
The definition of prime in any Ring is well known. But what primeness means, assuming the OP didn't want just the formal definition, is unknown. It depends on the context, and OP probably meant in terms of life, the universe, and everything.
How the universe seeming to have a primeness property among things, based on axioms we humans create from observations, affects everything else is complicated.
The best way to view is through our best way of describing the universe--physics; and physics definitely uses prime numbers, right?
So the question becomes how does the primeness property affect our physics?
Well that's hard, but it is clear without the primeness property, our current physics would not make sense.
Matthew Gutierrez
See ams.org
This is a system of elements with operations like numbers but there are only a finite number of primes.
Say "a" is one of those elements and we were walking a speed of "a"
We cannot understand what that means because it does not make sense based on what we can observe and think.
But a universe guided by this Ring instead of numbers would be very different.
Jacob White
prime numbers make no sense to me because when it seems like there is a pattern or understanding there is no way to predict all primes without calculating them in a monolithic fashion.
Lucas Cook
crackpot detected
Gavin Bell
Prime numbers are in canonical bijection with the points of Spec(Z), the terminal object in the category of schemes.
Evan Stewart
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Oliver Allen
How can there be a finite number of primes if there are infinite numbers?
Grayson Taylor
how can primes be real if our eyes aren't real
Elijah Thomas
That only one and the number are divisible by them.
Jace Reyes
Because there's an infinite amount of possibilities for those numbers to be divisible by other numbers.
Christopher Ortiz
Do you think one day we will have a function to tell us the nth prime?
If there is infinite primes and infinite natural numbers, there must(?) be some kind of structure to 'generate' them in mathematical nature
or am i completely wrong lol
James Miller
>a function to tell us the nth prime
f(n)=the nth prime number
where's my fields medal?
Parker Miller
its in my pocket
gonna sell it boy
Kayden Hall
I think meant an explicit way to generate them in polynomial time.
Caleb Reyes
wew that's very interesting.
In fact I've never been interested so much in math, probably because I've never been exposed to such high-level and "experimental" math.
William Phillips
bool isPrime(int n){
int x = 2;
while (n % x != 0)
x++;
if (x < n)
return false;
else
return true;
}
Julian Parker
dat efficiency man
Liam Gutierrez
shitty
bool isPrime(int n){
. for (int d = 2; d *d
Jordan Wright
Not the guy who posted . Just putting in my two cents. That only checks if it's prime. It doesn't generate a sequence of prime numbers. And as said, this is terribly inefficient. Some sort of memoization would probably help that. But there has to be some way to do it more quickly.
Brandon Rodriguez
> doesn't create a list of primes
while(n < 100000000000000000000000){
if (isPrime(n) == 1)
cout
Oliver Martin
>en.wikipedia.org
according to wikipedia, there are ways to generate primes with sublinear time complexities
Leo Clark
that's retarded
en.wikipedia.org
Eli Long
God you're right, can't believe I missed that.
while(n < 99999999999999999999999999){
if (isPrime(n) == 1)
cout
Nolan Young
there are a finite number of prime numbers
prove me wrong
[i know they aren't i just want to see how you prove they're infinite]
Ryder Ramirez
fckn Prime Numbers,
how do they werk?!
Benjamin Peterson
>babby's first proof
Okay, I'll humour you. Assuming you are working over the ring of integers, multiply all your finitely many prime numbers together and add one. No prime can multiply into it. Contradiction.
Joshua Rogers
You square d on every iteration
Landon White
Ryder Rodriguez
that picture made me laugh out loud like a retard.
my neighbours must think I'm an idiot
Angel Ward
Take your pedophile cartoons back to .
Fucking degenerate.