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  • Grant Sanderson (from 3Blue1Brown) shows us a pyramid that spits out prime numbers - and then we dig deeper.
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    See all three videos in this series - Grant's Prime Pattern Trilogy: bit.ly/PrimePatternTrilogy
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  • @numberphile
    @numberphile  Рік тому +189

    Part 1 of this three-part interview is at: ua-cam.com/video/jhObLT1Lrfo/v-deo.html
    Part 3 of this three-part interview: STILL BEING EDITED

  • @tommihommi1
    @tommihommi1 Рік тому +596

    Suddenly out of nowhere, a Function named after Euler appears.
    Feel like that's a fundamental rule of mathematics

    • @zmaj12321
      @zmaj12321 Рік тому +17

      Euler's totient function is REALLY essential to anything involving number theory. Not surprising.

    • @tyle.s9084
      @tyle.s9084 Рік тому +31

      @Paolo Verri And Gauss always found out about it when he was four years old

    • @otonanoC
      @otonanoC Рік тому +5

      Everything in math was invented by Euler or Riemann.

    • @louisrobitaille5810
      @louisrobitaille5810 Рік тому +6

      @@otonanoC Euler or Gauss* 😝. Riemann just built a few things on Gauss' work 👀.

    • @tommihommi1
      @tommihommi1 Рік тому

      @@zmaj12321 I only knew it as doing some neat thing for RSA.

  • @volodyadykun6490
    @volodyadykun6490 Рік тому +811

    "Prime numbers are, like, the sexiest numbers available" Grant Sanderson, 2022

    • @1224chrisng
      @1224chrisng Рік тому +58

      as James Grime would point out, we do have Sexy Primes, twin primes with a gap of 6

    • @birdbeakbeardneck3617
      @birdbeakbeardneck3617 Рік тому +6

      Shheeeeeshh

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 Рік тому +15

      @@1224chrisng Dude! There might be children reading this thread!

    • @dyld921
      @dyld921 Рік тому +50

      Grant Sanderson is, like, the sexiest mathematician available.

    • @kadefringe
      @kadefringe Рік тому +7

      I phap on prime numbers indeed

  • @mxlexrd
    @mxlexrd Рік тому +523

    An unlisted video from an unlisted video? Now we're in a super exclusive club!

    • @krokorok_
      @krokorok_ Рік тому

      :D

    • @viliml2763
      @viliml2763 Рік тому +26

      What video did you come from? I came from a listed video.

    • @mxlexrd
      @mxlexrd Рік тому +13

      @@viliml2763 It wasn't listed when I made the comment

    • @ophello
      @ophello Рік тому +4

      The first video wasn’t unlisted.

    • @themathhatter5290
      @themathhatter5290 Рік тому +17

      @@ophello It was when Grant linked it in his own video

  • @Rubrickety
    @Rubrickety Рік тому +405

    That silently-corrected "1/3" at 3:38 may be the first error I've ever seen Grant make 😂. The man is as smooth as an infinitely-differentiable function.

    • @theadamabrams
      @theadamabrams Рік тому +91

      For anyone confused, the correction 1/3 → 2/3 happens around 3:49

    • @berryzhang7263
      @berryzhang7263 Рік тому +8

      Omg yeah I was so confused when I saw the error lol

    • @leftaroundabout
      @leftaroundabout Рік тому +37

      If he didn't make any errors _at all_ he would be smooth like an analytic function. But that would be boring, because then you could represent him entirely by his Taylor expansion. _Countably_ many values, that can't be enough!

    • @axp_bubbles
      @axp_bubbles Рік тому +16

      If you watch the live streams he did during early pandemic days he makes a lot of errors while writing, and is very candid about them. Just a genuinely humble and brilliant human being.

    • @SmileyMPV
      @SmileyMPV Рік тому +5

      @@leftaroundabout not all smooth functions are analytic though
      but any continuous function is still determined by its rational evaluations, so in order to not be determined by only countably many values you do need to be discontinuous :P

  • @wehpudicabok6598
    @wehpudicabok6598 Рік тому +4

    Grant: "1/5, 2/5 --"
    me: "red fifth, blue fifth"

    • @ps.2
      @ps.2 2 місяці тому

      Oh, what a lot of fifths there are!

  • @juniperlovelace5262
    @juniperlovelace5262 Рік тому +36

    Its a special talent to make your thumbnails consistently look like something out of the 90s

  • @davidgillies620
    @davidgillies620 Рік тому +30

    The length of successive Farey sequences is OEIS A005728. The Euler totient function is one of the foundational objects of number theory. The fact that the sequence here is one plus the sum of the first n values of the totient function is another of those neat links that almost feel numerological in nature. If memory serves, there have already been Numberphile videos on the link between the Stern-Brocot tree and Farey sequences on the one hand, and Farey sequences and Ford circles on the other.

  • @conanichigawa
    @conanichigawa Рік тому +24

    Grant's explanation is awesome, but Brady's analogies make it more accessible to everyone.

  • @Vaaaaadim
    @Vaaaaadim Рік тому +28

    We're reaching levels of unlisted that shouldn't even be possible

    • @viliml2763
      @viliml2763 Рік тому +1

      What video did you come from? I came from a listed video.

    • @Vaaaaadim
      @Vaaaaadim Рік тому +3

      @@viliml2763 part 1
      When 3B1B's vid came out today, it linked to part 1, which was unlisted at that time.

  • @deadlyshizzno
    @deadlyshizzno Рік тому +3

    Is the third video ever coming? Have been checking back since this one first dropped

  • @redtaileddolphin1875
    @redtaileddolphin1875 Рік тому +18

    Your original video on farey sums and ford circle packing is probably my favorite on this channel, and one of my favorite on all of the internet. To watch them suddenly come up in this video was truly a treat

    • @jazermano
      @jazermano Рік тому +4

      Since I read your comment and got intrigued, I went and found the video, titled "Funny Fractions and Ford Circles." It's dated at being roughly 7 years old. But it is still has the same awesome Numberphile feel to it. Nice to see some things haven't changed.

    • @redtaileddolphin1875
      @redtaileddolphin1875 Рік тому +1

      @@jazermano aw thanks! it’s honestly asmr for me I love how he says “probably” and “pinkie”. 10/10 all math videos should also be asmr

  • @ShenghuiYang
    @ShenghuiYang Рік тому +21

    Amazing connection between Euler totient function, Farey and mobius inversion in such a short video.

  • @razlotan7504
    @razlotan7504 Рік тому +57

    It's like if you watch only 3b1b videos you would think everyone is as attractive as Grant

  • @hlvaneeden
    @hlvaneeden Рік тому +15

    The sum of digits of that last sequence is not 33, it is 37, which is prime :) (if you count 10 as two digits).

    • @scottabroughton
      @scottabroughton Рік тому +3

      But if you insert 10 11s, it comes to 57, which is composite.

    • @gaborszucs2788
      @gaborszucs2788 Рік тому +1

      ​@@scottabroughton except that for example it's not 1+10, rather, 1+1, which is not 11, so you skip that, plus 10+1 at the end. 57-2x2 is 53 which happens to be a prime...
      Who'll volunteer for 12?

    • @scottabroughton
      @scottabroughton Рік тому

      @@gaborszucs2788 Can you provide a visual?

  • @anoopramakrishna
    @anoopramakrishna Рік тому +19

    3 3 Blue 1 Brown Videos in 1 Day😁
    Inception much?

  • @fuuryuuSKK
    @fuuryuuSKK Рік тому +28

    DEEPER INTO THE VAULT WE GO

    • @OwlRTA
      @OwlRTA Рік тому +2

      ENHANCE

    • @ekxo1126
      @ekxo1126 Рік тому +2

      @@OwlRTA i just answered on a comment which was an answer to a comment of an unlisted video that I reached from another unlisted video

    • @viliml2763
      @viliml2763 Рік тому

      ​@@ekxo1126 What video did you come from? I came from a listed video.

  • @neil5280
    @neil5280 Рік тому +4

    I check back every day for Part 3.

    • @neil5280
      @neil5280 Рік тому

      Monday was pretty chill.

    • @neil5280
      @neil5280 Рік тому

      I don't have the stamina for commenting any more, but I am checking daily. Look forward to Part 3 whenever it arrives.

    • @neil5280
      @neil5280 Рік тому

      Happy New Year! 🎉

  • @MichaelJamesActually
    @MichaelJamesActually Рік тому +6

    Funny how Grant can talk about a sequence of numbers that really doesn't have any sort of significance, and I still enjoy watching it.

  • @ericpeterson6520
    @ericpeterson6520 Рік тому +11

    Is part 3 still in the works?

  • @EebstertheGreat
    @EebstertheGreat Рік тому +5

    I hope part 3 won't be unlisted. If I don't get notified when it's uploaded, I'll probably never see it.

  • @Michael-cg7yz
    @Michael-cg7yz Рік тому +58

    7:14
    So, we can define it as a function based on the Euler's totient function.
    one of the definitions of ETF is:
    phi(n) = sum from k=1 to n of gcd(k,n)*cos(2pi*k/n)
    then, the sequence would be defined as:
    1 + phi(1) + phi(2) + phi(3)....
    or to rewrite:
    g(t) = ([sum from n = 1 to t of phi(n)] + 1)
    and, it still outputs primes even after the break
    omitted values denoted with ( ), erroneous with [ ]
    g(t): 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, (17), 19, 23, 29, (31), [33], (37), (41), 43, 47, (53), 59, (61), [65], (67), (71), 73, (79), [81], (83), (89), 97, (101), 103
    i mean yes, it breaks worse each time but the only erroneous values up to 100 are [33], [65] and [81]

    • @lonestarr1490
      @lonestarr1490 Рік тому +2

      So all we need is a different imperfect prime sequence to use in conjunction with it, where it is guaranteed that the two of them never fail at the same time.

    • @panadrame3928
      @panadrame3928 Рік тому

      The question then is what is the proportion of non prime sums of φ(n) for n

    • @Michael-cg7yz
      @Michael-cg7yz Рік тому

      @@panadrame3928 you mean this g(x) or Euler's totient function? I'm fairly sure the first one is independent of primes, so sometimes it'll hit them, sometimes, and that being the larger amount it'll miss them

  • @highlewelt9471
    @highlewelt9471 Рік тому +9

    Grant is always such a delight

  • @ifroad33
    @ifroad33 Рік тому +7

    Great mathematician. Great UA-cam content creator. Charismatic as heck. We all wish to be Grant I presume.

  • @dkranda
    @dkranda Рік тому +2

    @9:47 excuse me but Tim “The Moth” Hein is absolutely an A lister!

    • @toycobra12
      @toycobra12 Рік тому +2

      I thought it was the guy from the KFC logo 😂

  • @AllHailZeppelin
    @AllHailZeppelin Рік тому +5

    After realizing that the total number of DIGITS in the 10th row stays prime (37), I got hopeful that maybe the number of digits would keep the pattern even if the number of elements (numbers) doesn’t.
    But alas, at the 11th row the number of digits is 37+2*φ(11), or 57… 😕

  • @Uranyus36
    @Uranyus36 Рік тому +1

    probably the most fascinating prime pattern that tricks everybody the most is the approximating prime-counting function which leads to the birth of skewes number. even tho skewes number is an over-overestimate i guess the actually point where the prime-counting function changes its size comparison to the actual number of primes < n would still be something huge (like 10 to the power several hundreds?). this completely blasts through the regime of small numbers a mortal could interpret of, but yet at some point the relatively big boys still gonna break the pattern.

  • @deadlyshizzno
    @deadlyshizzno Рік тому +1

    I have been coming back here like twice a day waiting for part 3 to be linked in the pinned comment or description! I'm excited for that vid, I could listen to Grant talk about math forever

  • @JamalanJuda
    @JamalanJuda Рік тому +1

    My two favorite channels coming together.

  • @jamesepace
    @jamesepace Рік тому +25

    Oh darn, part 3 isn't up yet, which means I'm going to close this tab and forget to come back to see the exciting conclusion. :(

    • @andrewharrison8436
      @andrewharrison8436 Рік тому +1

      😃I bet you have already subscribed.

    • @jamesepace
      @jamesepace Рік тому

      @@andrewharrison8436 Yeah, but if it's unlisted it doesn't show up in the subscriptions list.

  • @lucas.cardoso
    @lucas.cardoso Рік тому +3

    If 1 was a prime number, then the first prime actor would be Sylvester StallONE.

  • @dhoyt902
    @dhoyt902 Рік тому +1

    The second number in the rows of Pascal triangle(the counting numbers) will evenly go into every number in the row IFF the number is prime.

  • @happyelephant5384
    @happyelephant5384 Рік тому

    This collab is legendary

  • @ZacThompson
    @ZacThompson Рік тому +1

    3 brown paper videos: you should do 1 on blue paper with him just to complete the inversion

  • @razer1024
    @razer1024 Рік тому +2

    Best video in a long while 🎉❤

  • @SuperYoonHo
    @SuperYoonHo Рік тому +1

    Awesome video!

  • @FirstLast-gw5mg
    @FirstLast-gw5mg Рік тому +1

    Will the 3rd video be published on one of your channels, so that we'll see it?

  • @nikhilkenvetil1594
    @nikhilkenvetil1594 Рік тому +4

    What is this, a crossover episode?
    ❤Great stuff as always!

  • @jacksonstarky8288
    @jacksonstarky8288 Рік тому +4

    And the third video is still being edited. But I needed to watch this again anyway. Grant's explanations are so clear and understandable that I keep expecting his channel to come out with a follow-up to his Riemann zeta function video proving the Riemann hypothesis.

  • @Par_and_syv_lovers56
    @Par_and_syv_lovers56 Рік тому

    awesome collab

  • @SpySappingMyKeyboard
    @SpySappingMyKeyboard Рік тому +4

    When adding even numbers (because it's symmetric) to small odd numbers (after the first) it's hard not to hit a prime

  • @arandomdiamond2
    @arandomdiamond2 Рік тому +2

    According to what you said about it being related to the number of fractions with a maximum denominator, this can compute primes! You just need to check how many numbers are added at each step and for step i, if i-1 numbers were added, then i is prime. I checked up to i=3000 too.

    • @arandomdiamond2
      @arandomdiamond2 Рік тому

      Not very efficient for calculating big primes though

    • @TheEternalVortex42
      @TheEternalVortex42 Рік тому

      This is just checking the definition of the Euler totient function for primes, since φ(p) = p-1.

    • @arandomdiamond2
      @arandomdiamond2 Рік тому

      @@TheEternalVortex42 Yes, but I found it interesting since Grant said the "Prime Pyramid" didn't produce primes, and I've never seen primes calculated this way before so I just thought it was cool.

  • @kruksog
    @kruksog Рік тому +8

    Actually did research work on Farey sums and polynomials and so on. Wild to see some of it shared here. Feels like a fever dream seeing this presented 🙃

  • @abuzzedwhaler7949
    @abuzzedwhaler7949 Рік тому +2

    Papa Grant here to give us some key geometric intuitions

  • @TheFakeMackie
    @TheFakeMackie Рік тому +1

    3b1b is a phenom channel. Great collab.

  • @johnkonrath1115
    @johnkonrath1115 Рік тому +1

    Loving the trilogy!

    • @backwashjoe7864
      @backwashjoe7864 Рік тому

      I have a reminder set to look for the 4th / "Resurrections" video in 18 years.

  • @bad_manbot
    @bad_manbot Рік тому +7

    it would be interesting to see the sequence of numbers that are primes that he pyramid skips, and see if they hold any patterns we can recognize

    • @SgtSupaman
      @SgtSupaman Рік тому +6

      Another comment did the output to just over 100. Here are the skipped primes they came up with: 17, 31, 37, 41, 53, 61, 67, 71, 79, 83, 89, 101

    • @jurjenbos228
      @jurjenbos228 Рік тому +1

      @@SgtSupaman This is not in the OEIS. But the sequence of denominators of Farey sequences is: A006843, and the sequence of numbers of Farey fractions (prime or not) is A005728.

    • @bad_manbot
      @bad_manbot Рік тому +1

      @@SgtSupaman nothing quite jumps off the page at me. though it is interesting the differences between the skipped primes from one to the next.
      4, 6, 4, 12, 8, 6, 4, 8, 4, 6, 12
      way less variability than I expected - though i have a suspicion that this is more due to the "6n+1, 6n-1" nature of primes than anything else. (also given how densely packed they are at the lower end of the number line, as mentioned in this video.)

  • @danieluran9555
    @danieluran9555 Рік тому

    This is an unexpected follow up to Dr. Bonahon's video... Great!!

  • @xanderalaniz2298
    @xanderalaniz2298 Рік тому +5

    It would be interesting to see how this works in other Bases. Following the totient function of 10, would it break down in a similar manner in duodecimal, or is it merely a trick of numbers merely being close to each other?

    • @andrewharrison8436
      @andrewharrison8436 Рік тому +5

      The totient function is independent of base. It depens on common factors (or lack of them) not on the representation of the number.

  • @zerosir1852
    @zerosir1852 4 місяці тому

    My three inventions able to change the all history of mathematics. (1) The Easy Number Theory
    (2) The Original Remainder Theorem
    (3) The Prime Pyramid Theorem

  • @addymant
    @addymant Рік тому +2

    Will you upload the third video unlisted?

  • @EPMTUNES
    @EPMTUNES Рік тому +26

    Grants always been a great math communicator!

  • @Sajatzsiraf
    @Sajatzsiraf Рік тому +1

    This is super cool :) thank you for sharing this with us!

  • @deadlyshizzno
    @deadlyshizzno Рік тому +1

    Guys the description changed from "STILL BEING EDITED" to "soon"

  • @TaranovskiAlex
    @TaranovskiAlex Рік тому

    So... how many times more I have to refresh the page to see the link to the 3rd part? Are you testing if page refreshes contribute to the views number?

  • @fidgettyspinner3028
    @fidgettyspinner3028 Рік тому

    A nice mathematician's pause when that second "1/3" is noticed and fixed offscreen for the next section.

  • @a0z9
    @a0z9 Рік тому

    In each row ,the most numerous number is the prime but if tie always choose the prime you Know from the previus rows.

  • @bumbleandsimba
    @bumbleandsimba Рік тому

    NUMBERPHILE I LOVE YOU'RE VIDEOS 💗

  • @kingdomadventures
    @kingdomadventures Рік тому +9

    In this series I saw something I never saw before--veins popping out of Grant's arms. Teach has been lifting!

  • @OwlRTA
    @OwlRTA Рік тому +12

    lmao, Tim Hein being a very high odd number

  • @AidanRatnage
    @AidanRatnage Рік тому +1

    Suddenly, it's not unlisted anymore!

  • @JamesJoyceJazz
    @JamesJoyceJazz Рік тому +1

    i want the third ep right now pls thanks in advance loving the material

  • @hyftar
    @hyftar Рік тому +1

    Question about the prime pyramid, would the sequence still break if we used another base? (i.e. Would the same sequence in base 16, break at 16?)

  • @toferg.8264
    @toferg.8264 Рік тому

    4:22 so far it is a repeat of the Stern Brocot Sequence and the Funny Fractions video. Which is fine :) . I hope there is more.

  • @TheCapcarap
    @TheCapcarap Рік тому

    This is the ultimate video

  • @CorrectHorseBatteryStaple472
    @CorrectHorseBatteryStaple472 Рік тому +1

    7:10 Damn it, it's that Euler guy, again!

  • @ChrisSeltzer
    @ChrisSeltzer Рік тому +2

    This is why you asked for A list and B list actors on Twitter haha

  • @smizmar8
    @smizmar8 Рік тому

    The quip about 3b1b being "A list" haha, you certainly are too tho Bradey, I literally started learning math in my 20's because of your channels! :D

  • @shrayanpramanik8985
    @shrayanpramanik8985 7 місяців тому +1

    Now if I say to some kid who watches numberphile,that Jennifer Lawrence was in a numberphile video, would they believe it😂?

  • @leobarlach
    @leobarlach Рік тому

    That's the funny addition video! Classic!

  • @keyaanmatin4804
    @keyaanmatin4804 Рік тому +2

    How deep does this rabbit hole go?

  • @thatoneginger
    @thatoneginger Рік тому +10

    Grant is def a prime number, wish we’d see more of him on his home channel, but pie guy is cute too 😊

  • @LegendaryFartMaster
    @LegendaryFartMaster Рік тому +1

    2:10
    As a certain suspender wearing Frenchman would say:
    "Today, we're looking at frraacctions"

  • @GourangaPL
    @GourangaPL 5 місяців тому

    i came up to a problem with similar thing, start with sequence of 111, each next row is the previous sequence as binary number number XOR itself shifted 1 and 2 bits, so 111 XOR 1110 XOR 11100 so 2nd row is 10101, next is 1101011 and so on, find a way to count how many 1 bits are in the nth sequence, i know for n = 2%k the answe is 3, for n=2k it's equal to the answer for n/2, need a formula for the general case

  • @stapler942
    @stapler942 Рік тому +1

    The mediant of two fractions, huh? Is there a submediant? What about a dominant and subdominant? What's the leading tone of two fractions? What's the supertonic?

  • @pleappleappleap
    @pleappleappleap Рік тому

    I wonder how the performance of this stacks up against the Sieve of Eratosthenes?

  • @BaccarWozat
    @BaccarWozat Рік тому

    Does the tenth one add up to 33 though? If you count the fact that the number 10 has two digits, you're actually adding 8 instead of 4, making it 37, which is still prime. But there's probably another snag not much further along.

  • @koboldnoble
    @koboldnoble Рік тому +3

    Soon we shall reach kaizo trap levels of unlisted

  • @bstlang
    @bstlang Рік тому

    On the line for number 10 is doesn't break if you count digits, since it becomes 37, not 33.

  • @deadlyshizzno
    @deadlyshizzno Рік тому +2

    Part 3 is finally out! Thanks for listening to the like 5 people that were asking for it in this comment section lol :D

  • @cloak_poison2124
    @cloak_poison2124 Рік тому

    THE CROSSOVER I DREAMT OF

  • @GanerRL
    @GanerRL Рік тому +2

    part 3 is just never occuring i guess?

  • @senthilkumaran5255
    @senthilkumaran5255 Рік тому

    neat sleight of hand at 3:47 :)

  • @kirkanos771
    @kirkanos771 Рік тому +2

    It crashed at 10 but what if we count in base 16 and replace 10 by A. Its 1 less digit. Augmenting the base should delay the moment it crashes, is it ?

    • @aceman0000099
      @aceman0000099 Рік тому +1

      I also wondered if it fails at 10 because of base 10. It may be pure coincidence

    • @user-qo3qm7ud1d
      @user-qo3qm7ud1d Рік тому +3

      It does not depend on base of number system!

    • @kirkanos771
      @kirkanos771 Рік тому

      @@user-qo3qm7ud1d That's not our point. Choosing another base may delay the number of iterations before it crashes.

  • @jasonremy1627
    @jasonremy1627 Рік тому +11

    If you count each digit in the 10, you get 37, which is prime!

  • @axelnilsson6478
    @axelnilsson6478 Рік тому +3

    Poor Tim!

  • @countrychurchmonuments7906
    @countrychurchmonuments7906 Рік тому +1

    Never mind all that. I want to know why he has a combination lock on the door in the background.

  • @rainerausdemspring894
    @rainerausdemspring894 Рік тому

    Guy's articles contain some really striking (counter-)examples. I am afraid you need to have access to JSTOR in order to read them.

  • @chessandmathguy
    @chessandmathguy Рік тому +1

    I'd like to see a seemingly true conjecture that was thought to be true for a long time until someone came along and definitively proved it false. That would be something.

  • @kp2k
    @kp2k Рік тому

    super cool

  • @FrancescoDiMauro
    @FrancescoDiMauro Рік тому +5

    Imagine if the average high school math teacher was as knowledgeable and pleasant as Grant.

  • @anonymoususer2756
    @anonymoususer2756 Рік тому

    Thought this was going in the direction of the Stern-Brocot sequence at first

  • @Chunes3
    @Chunes3 Рік тому +1

    Grant called the mediant "not a wholly useless operation" which implies it is partially useless.

  • @RobertMStahl
    @RobertMStahl Рік тому

    Rydberg is watching
    (finite structure)
    crystal eyes
    ...hydrino
    autopoiesis?

  • @leodarkk
    @leodarkk Рік тому +2

    Well I suppose that one "reason" why you are getting primes at the begining is that this method will never produce an even number, that is guaranteed.
    It's even weaker than the Paterson method where 2,3 and 5 are excluded as divisors, but it is there :).

  • @guillaumelagueyte1019
    @guillaumelagueyte1019 Рік тому

    I'm only halfway through the video, but does this mean that the gaps between consecutive primes depend somehow on whether the ranks of the primes are prime numbers themselves?

  • @D_Cragoon
    @D_Cragoon Рік тому +2

    The secret video chain continues!

    • @viliml2763
      @viliml2763 Рік тому

      What video did you come from? I came from a listed video.

    • @D_Cragoon
      @D_Cragoon Рік тому

      @@viliml2763 Oh just the first part.

  • @davidlees2963
    @davidlees2963 Рік тому +1

    Although if you count the both digits of 10, you add 8 which takes you to 37.
    Then for 11, you have to add 22, that goes to 59.
    Then 12, you have to add 8, that goes to 67.
    But it breaks with 13, as you have to add 26 and that goes to 93 (not a prime).

    • @Anonymous-df8it
      @Anonymous-df8it Рік тому +2

      I wonder which number base produces the most primes?

    • @SgtSupaman
      @SgtSupaman Рік тому +1

      @@Anonymous-df8it , changing the base doesn't matter here. A prime is a prime, regardless of what base you are using (so the pattern is exactly the same, just with different looking digits). For instance, 17 in base-10 is written as 15 in base-12, but it is still a prime number either way, because 15 base-12 has no factors besides 1 and itself.

    • @Anonymous-df8it
      @Anonymous-df8it Рік тому +1

      @@SgtSupaman If you written ten in base 16, then you'd only need to write 4 digits rather than eight. So that could change it from a prime number of digits to a composite number (i.e. 37 -> 33)

    • @SgtSupaman
      @SgtSupaman Рік тому +2

      @@Anonymous-df8it , except that's not how the pattern works. You consider every number to itself, not its individual digits. When it got to 10, he added four, not eight.
      By your logic, Grant should have said it continued finding primes at 10 in base-10, but then the pattern falls apart entirely on the next line because you are only looking at single digits, so you don't get 11 everywhere you're supposed to get it (meaning you won't be getting anything related to ϕ(n) once n > base).

    • @Anonymous-df8it
      @Anonymous-df8it Рік тому +1

      @@SgtSupaman If you modify the pattern so that that's how it works, what number base is the best?

  • @LGreenGriffin
    @LGreenGriffin Рік тому +2

    If you count the number of digits instead of the number of numbers, you get 37 instead of 33 at n=10, right?

    • @livedandletdie
      @livedandletdie Рік тому +1

      no. Because 2/10 is 1/5 and it's already on there, and the same goes for 0/10 4/10 5/10 6/10 8/10 10/10 only leaving 1/10 3/10 7/10 and 9/10
      which are the four numbers that would be inserted into the sequence and it would break.

    • @Anonymous-df8it
      @Anonymous-df8it Рік тому +1

      @@livedandletdie You insert a 10, 10, 10 and a 10. There are eight new digits.

  • @VigEuth
    @VigEuth Рік тому

    If you use a different base (non-base 10) will the pattern also break once you get to that base?

    • @isavenewspapers8890
      @isavenewspapers8890 Рік тому +1

      No. The pattern has nothing to do with the digits of the numbers.

    • @SgtSupaman
      @SgtSupaman Рік тому +1

      How does changing the base matter here? The prime numbers are the same no matter what base you use. For instance, just because 15 in base 10 is written as 13 in base 12, it doesn't magically become a prime number. It's still composite.