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SubiculumCode
80 days ago
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The number pi has an evil twin
Is there an evil twin to the set of prime numbers?
OscarCunningham
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There are the Lucky Numbers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_number
. Generated by a variant of the Sieve of Eratosthenes, they're believed to have a similar distribution to the primes while not having similar multiplicative properties.
amai
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The opposite of prime numbers are
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highly_composite_number
But I'm not sure if these ones are evil.
fisian
80 days ago
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There are the anti prime numbers (also called highly composite numbers).
block_dagger
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Every even number?
ralusek
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2?
pwdisswordfishz
79 days ago
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Well, this one is pretty evil as prime numbers go.
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