Prime Numbers Could Be Predictable, Says Huge Potential Mathematical Breakthrough

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Ask just about any mathematician, and they’ll tell you the same thing: you can’t predict the primes. Indeed, the pseudorandomness of these building blocks of mathematics – defined as numbers that can only be divided by themselves and one – is as close to a truism as you can get in the subject. Or is it? According to researchers from City University of Hong Kong and North Carolina State University, the answer may be no. “Our team has devised a way to predict accurately and swiftly when prime numbers will appear,” said Way Kuo, Senior Fellow at the Hong Kong...