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Prime Race

Watch primes race based on their mod 4 classification

The Race

This video sets out a race between two sets of primes - just like we covered in Chebyshev's Bias:

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Key Discoveries

The main discovery here is not so much that there is a bias, but that $3 \pmod{4}$ leads the race 99% of the time.

The weird thing is that $1 \pmod{4}$ will always have a chance of being in the lead again at any point, however big the numbers get.

Something is bringing the numbers back together. The contention of this whole site: it is the Riemann Zeta Function.

Great video, great explanation by Numberphile featuring 3Blue1Brown!

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