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Feb6-04, 05:10 AM   #4
 
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Prime Geometry


Originally posted by meteor
Give a look to Ulam's spiral. It appeared in the cover of Scientific American
http://mathworld.wolfram.com/PrimeSpiral.html
Has anything ever been prroven from that. For example it would appear that where x is a natrual number 4x^2 + 11x + 7 can never be a prime number