sympy.nsimplify

Paul Rudin paul.nospam at rudin.co.uk
Tue May 21 07:17:24 EDT 2013


Skip Montanaro <skip at pobox.com> writes:

> Very cool indeed.  In the comments was a link to an XKCD cartoon.  Its
> tool tip mentioned "twin primes".  Looked that up.  Google pointed (of
> course) at Wikipedia.  Read that.  Backed up to the Google Search, and
> noticed there is a news item from 15 hours ago that an unknown
> mathematician at the University of New Hampshire has proven the twin
> primes conjecture:
> http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/05/twin-primes/
>
> This is nothing to do with the original post.  It's just amazing to me
> how short the distance between one very interesting topic on the net
> and something almost unrelated can be.

AIUI the twin primes conjecture hasn't been proved. But a significant
related fact - that there's an infinitude of primes no more that N apart
where N <~ 70,000,000. That might not sound like a lot of progress - but
the point is that the existence of some finite bound is very
significant.



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