Ulam spiral
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ulam-spiral-228-279199
title:
Ulam spiral
text:
The Ulam spiral or prime spiral is a graphical depiction of the set of prime numbers, devised by mathematician Stanisław Ulam in 1963 and popularized in Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games column in Scientific American a short time later. It is constructed by writing the positive integers in a square spiral and specially marking the prime numbers. Ulam and Gardner emphasized the striking appearance in the spiral of prominent diagonal, horizontal, and vertical lines containing large numbers of pr
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encyclopedia
description:
Visualization of the prime numbers formed by arranging the integers into a spiral
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulam_spiral
date created:
2002-08-03T18:45:58Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T01:00:55Z
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image:
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