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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