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Simple formula makes prime numbers easy, but a million-dollar mystery remains (www.scientificamerican.com)
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Does this mean this formula can calculate prime numbers without finding all smaller primes (as the Sieve of Erastothenes does)? Or is that somehow just implicitly done with all the factorials and sums and whatnot?