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Originally Posted by David Bailey What excellent model! The only concrete idea was that multiples of 2,3,5,11 could be eliminated. I don't know if anyone studied that accuracy of the prime number savants, but I hope they were doing better than just sieving those numbers out! |
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Prime numbers are notoriously random - I mean tell me how it is done and I will abandon alternative ideas. The point you seem to fail to grasp, is that we also need to understand why these people regularly pick on day of the week type calculations, and to a lesser extent, prime numbers. There are lots of other types of numbers that they could choose - perfect squares, for example, but they seem to have chosen the mathematicians' choice!
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Imagine that you can marshall a set of neurons to represent a number and then have them signal each other to form a rectangular grid. If all the rows in the grid are complete, then the number is not a prime. Now imagine you can have them do this for each possible number of columns up to the square root of the number.
Are you going to tell me that this is absolutely impossible? The fact that it is nonconscious is irrelevant.
Regarding squares:
Savant Syndrome - Brain Skills (UK) Autistic Savant http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index...view_unit/2905
~~ Paul
