Prime Numbers are not Random(?)

The infinite world of prime numbers just got a little more finite, after a pair of mathematicians discovered the prime number sequence isn't as random as once thought.

Primes hate to repeat themselves, the researchers from Stanford University, California have found.

It's a prime 'conspiracy' that has stunned mathematicians with its elegant simplicity.

Stretch your memory back to the gridded pages of your primary school maths book and you'll remember primes are numbers that are only divisible by themselves and 1.

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Thank goodness prime numbers along with equations and algebra are things I never have to worry about again for the rest of my life

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Have to admit that quantum maths are now safely in my room 101.

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I studied number theory with the Open University but that was over 30 years ago and I can't remember much about it.