3 Comments
User's avatar
SkepticalWaves's avatar

Any thoughts on the uniqueness of the starting point?

N.D. Wallace-Swan's avatar

Baby boy was just down for sleep, so I went to the shower. Then it dawned on me that maybe Primes have a pattern. So I thought, what if I set an arbitrary starting number (144k) and added all the primes below it, averaged them, then rounded to the nearest prime to that average. Then, repeat the sequence until reaching zero. The emergent pattern was astonishingly regular, following a trend line very close (99.93%). Pattern continued when I tried it up to 1 million. Definitely a curiosity.

N.D. Wallace-Swan's avatar

Erm, as for 144000, that was sort of a joke because I heard Jehovah’s Witnesses say only 144000 make it into heaven or something (join the heaven bureaucracy lol?)