New pattern in prime numbers found by Stanford University researchers

Q.  Kannan Soundararajan and Robert Lemke Oliver have found a pattern in the last digit of successive ________ numbers.
- Published on 04 Apr 16

a. odd
b. even
c. prime
d. non prime

ANSWER: prime
 
Kannan Soundararajan and Robert Lemke Oliver of Stanford University found a pattern in the last digits of successive prime numbers, by analysing numerically the first 100 million numbers.
  • The study is the key to understanding the blend of random distribution and patterns in prime numbers.
  • Though prime numbers occupy definite positions on the number line, thereby are not random at all, studying distributions of numbers comes in useful to predict properties which haven’t been proved yet.

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