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Parth (parthkohli):

Two very unknown facts about the prime numbers.

Parth (parthkohli):

The largest prime number known to man is: \(2^{43112609} - 1\)

Parth (parthkohli):

And, now I'll be talking about the ulam's spiral: Step 1: Mark numbers like this in a rectangular grid.

Parth (parthkohli):

Step 2: Mark a dot on all prime numbers and erase the composite numbers. You get something like this:

OpenStudy (apoorvk):

Ahaa! the corner's a perfect square in this spiral right?

Parth (parthkohli):

A smaller version of this spiral is:

OpenStudy (apoorvk):

I mean the the no.left to the the right bottom corner.

Parth (parthkohli):

See this @apoorvk this is still not a literal pattern, but makes one very unique drawing pattern. Something like in a rangoli!

OpenStudy (apoorvk):

Hmm... Interesting..

OpenStudy (anonymous):

interesting

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