This function is plotting prime numbers.

http://bretlittle.org:5050/

The centermost dot is 1 and then it plots concentric squares increasing by
1 in counter-clockwise fashion.

Prime numbers are dark navy
numbers with few factors are blue
numbers with several factors are light blue
numbers with a huge number of factors are white

If you zoom out a few steps and refresh you'll start to see a pattern that
would look really great in a suit if you swapped out the blues for charcoal
grey threads (and as a bonus it'll make your cpu really hot).

Although you can't look at it and guarantee which numbers will be prime, it
certainly gives you some clear directions in which to guess.

Has Bret Little brought us 1 step closer to discovering prime numbers
quickly?

AJ ONeal

P.S. (he'll be posting the code on github shortly)
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