Recent content by idiom

Thanks for the tip

Have someone working with me on the code. He is pretty busy so it may take him some time to work through his stack.

Best reply on the board yet! I have looked at a myriad of methods just as you describe and I agree with your conclusions. As for the primes themselves they manifest themselves in the calculations which a mathematician of your caliber could probably extract more efficiently then me. I have...

When I say directly I mean each iteration gives a valid result.

Sorry about my terminology. Would you consider directly calculating all the composite numbers (Composites) in a range ( any give range you pick) heuristic? Or is it just heuristic if you use the result to find primes?

The solution presented seems to have the problem of being non-deterministic. I am offering a deterministic solution for discussion. That is we can precisely calculate all of the composites in a deterministic fashion for any given number range. The primes themselves are the numbers missing from...

I like your response Oh. As to Ivy I would contend that anything in nature either resides in a state of prime or breaks down to its simplest building block.

Ah good a biologist! Do you feel primes are critical to the study of biology? This goes to my premise that prime numbers manifest themselves throughout nature and are key to understanding uniqueness.

Fantastic thanks for the info:

Using a java app currently

Would have already posted, but there is a proprietary advantage of factoring very large numbers.

Yes I am considering very large numbers. That is what makes the method useful. I can zero in on specific number ranges without sieving an enormous quantity of numbers.

Yes good point. The method allows targeting of a select segment without knowing the preceeding primes. If you are interested in a segment of large numbers you can generate the composites for that segment only. The Sieve of Eratosthenes appears incapable of doing that.

What is the probability that the stability of strings depends on prime quantities in order to be unique? Without prime numbers, would the strings break into composite states.

Yes that is the caveat and right now it appears to be working perfectly. However I will need help setting the algorithm to test to very large numbers. I am very confident because the math is sound. Very excited about the fact the method can also be used to factor composite numbers quickly...