alt Hacker NewsAll the primes above 2^32 are out, but that accounts for only two point something percent.
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topaz0 • today at 4:02 PM
But also all of their multiples. I suspect that those account for the vast majority.
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All the primes above 2^32 are out, but that accounts for only two point something percent.
But also all of their multiples. I suspect that those account for the vast majority.
The simple explanation is just that lot of ways that numbers can multiply to produce the same product
Like an odd number x times an even number y, x* y produces the same product as x* 2 and y/2
Same for a multiple of 3 c and and a non multiple of 3 d, c * d = c/3 * d*3