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Love that! It’s your white whale :P

Oh, you may have noticed the above fact I thought I knew was incorrect. I realized after I sent that I had mixed up twin prime connection to mersenne but it’s actually “perfect numbers” that pair up with mersenne (nothing profound, was simple enough that we showed it in the number theory class I took long ago).

Thanks for explaining!
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Daniel Wigton 11mo ago

Thanks for asking!

White whale or not, I haven't really made progress since I wrote my senior thesis. My main accomplishment there was rediscovering Wheel Sieves 20 years after Paul Pritchard did. Though I only found that out a few years ago :-p My research game isn't great.

Wheels are a delightful way to think about the distribution of primes. They have lots of surprising properties. They are what allowed me to count the twin co-primes to the first N primes. I'd show the formula, it is pretty simple, but not sure how to write the product operator in text.

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YODL 11mo ago

Close enough I’d at least give myself mental credit for codiscovery! Looking up what wheels sieves are… oh, and that Pritchard guy is probably a jerk anyway!

Not entirely clear from skimming Wikipedia, but get the idea enough I think. Don’t have the brain to go any further with it 🤕