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The Ulam Prime Spiral

Tomaz Kastrun re-creates a classic:

Stanislaw Ulam, Los Alamos, 1963 was bored in a meeting and he started dooddling integers in a spiral and circled the primes. Diagonal lines appeared. He later showed it to Martin Gardner, to Ulam surprise, Gardner published his findings in Scientific American. We are still confused to this day.

Click through for a demonstration of this in action.

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