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o(1) statistical prime approximation (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[–] themusicman@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Correct. Not are why people are upvoting. If 10% of numbers are prime in a range, and you always guess false, you get 90% right. If you randomly guess true 10% of the time, you get ~80% right.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

More random means more towards 50% correctness.

[–] ptu@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

And 2,3,5,7 are primes of the first numbers, making always false 60% correct and random chance 50%