Comments on The Numbers
Mentioning a "Prime Clock" seemed like the end of the road. Certainly, one could never be constructed. But if you are willing to explore further, subsequent articles document a journey I don't think anyone was expecting...
2024-10-03 23:33:47
I've seen a few papers coming up in recent years that have found increasing levels of predictability, but I'd not dug very deep. Your articles gave me the grounding I need to make sense of them. Have you seen the "Periodic Table of Primes" (2024) paper? https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4742238. There's is a 210 wheel, much like the one that you spend most time on, though they lay it out as a table. But they don't seem to identify the diminishing returns effect that you did as you get into higher numbers of digits, they don't address the problem of separating the pseudo-primes from the real primes, and they don't discuss the pros/cons of going to larger wheel/table sizes.
2025-05-09 02:38:21Quite an honor to receive comments from someone so well versed in the academic literature. Your own papers are very thorough and complete with citations. A notable coincidence with the SSRN paper you list is its publication date of March 2024, (but written April 2024?). "The Numbers" article was posted March 2024 also. I just looked at the "Periodic Table of Primes" and the authors clearly did their own extensive work. But the timing and areas of conceptual overlap are uncanny!
2025-05-10 18:03:02