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The Hippasus Primes

Posted 9 years ago
POSTED BY: Ed Pegg
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Posted 7 years ago

Is it possible that the patterns for 2 and the larger Heegner numbers look so weird is because the rectangles or triangles in the lattice aren't equilateral? I reckon if you scaled the imaginary axis for 2, 7, 11, 19, 43, 67, and 163 so that the lattice was regular, they'd all look even more symmetric.

POSTED BY: Sam Richardson

Interesting idea, but how to scale things? For 2, I could see something currently unknown popping up.
For 7, 11, 19, 43, 67, and 163, I don't know of anything regular in those spaces. There aren't tilings of those sorts.

But there are many tilings in the space of 2. Can you find one that makes the Hippasus primes stand out?

POSTED BY: Ed Pegg

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