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Soundararajan showed his findings to postdoctoral researcher Lemke Oliver, who was shocked. He immediately wrote a program that searched much farther out along the number line — through the first 400 billion primes.

This is how modern computers revolutionized even the most theoretical fields like number theory. Remarkable, I love it!




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