From: david eddy > I don't think your impatience was justified. Sometimes being correct is more important than whatever empty justification one seeks in heuristics. But if you are seeking justification, these primes are quite late, as the 10,000,000 digit barrier "should" have been broken back in late 2006.
A common mistake is to use the mean of the Poisson distribution as if it were a separator between occurrences, rather than just a mean difference. So they try to add something to the last occurrence, forgetting all of the other data points. Also this mean is not a mean from a normal distribution: long and short gaps are not symmetrically distributed. A Poisson distribution should have clusters of occurrences (Noll's Islands if you will). CC _______________________________________________ Prime mailing list Prime@hogranch.com http://hogranch.com/mailman/listinfo/prime
