I had a choice to make last month. For my independent maths project I could choose anything from maths to play with. Hay, I thought, a bit of number theory around prime numbers would be fun. I'll have a little history, play with mersine primes and have a bit of fun identifying patterns before they go down in smoke. It's the last part that interests because I end up in an infinite loop that goes like this.
Oooo. That looks interesting
Hay, it's a pattern. I wonder how long it goes on for?
It's still going on. Maybe I've broken maths and / or I'm going to be rich and famous
Bugger. The pattern has ended
Minutes later........
Oooo. That looks interesting......
Once I set my mind on something I can be quite obsessive and I can see how this can get dark very quickly with an ever desperate search to create order out of the chaos of primes. Surely this search could end in a myriad of unfortunate ways....Still, I suppose it's a interesting and different way to pass time than Plants Vs Zombies.
Right, back to making maths fit my sense of order!
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