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[edit] User:CRGreathouse/Tables of special primes: part II

After our discussion, I've added 15 types of primes to my list: 4 constellations, 6 miscellaneous, and 5 that are cofinite in the primes. Here are the new ones:

  • Friedman primes
  • pandigital primes
  • permutable primes
  • elite primes
  • Soundararajan primes
  • symmetric primes
  • Hogben's central polygonal primes
  • sexy primes, prime triplets (both types), prime quadruplets
  • primes, odd, titanic, gigantic, and megaprimes

I'd also like advice on categorization. Repunit primes seem to fit naturally into the base-dependent section, but of course they're actually Diophantine primes (of form (10k − 1) / 9, naturally). Likewise, primes and odd primes could be linear Diophantine primes or 'size-based' primes with titanic/gigantic/mega.

I thought of another issue as well. The page uses big-O notation in its literal sense, and this may be confusing. If there some text I should put in to this effect? For example, elite primes are O(n/log² n) in the sense that they're no more common than n/log² n, but they're actually nearly that dense -- they seem to be of logarithmic density, as Müller conjectures. (Well, he actually conjectures polylogarithmic, but supposes that c = 1 could be taken.) Quick options here:

  • Leave it as is
  • Add with explanatory note reminding readers about big-O
  • Add lower bounds or disclaimer of lower bounds for each entry: O(n/log² n), lower bound unknown
  • Split 'size' into lower and upper bounds (using colwidth=2 for tight bounds)
  • Other?

After working on the page for a while, I decided that I don't think it's a candidate for replacing List of prime numbers. The purposes are just too different -- the current List is already straying a bit from its title, and this is just too different.

CRGreathouse (t | c) 05:04, 2 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Another Help desk barnstar

The Help Desk Barnstar
For your exceptional work on the Help desk, and teaching me some stuff, I award you this barnstar. --Teratornis (talk) 04:38, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] twin, sexy and related primes

Hi, thanks for going over my recent extension of twin prime. I found it remarkable that there are twice as much "sexy primes" as there are twin primes. You deleted it saying "...expected in view of divisibility by 3... mention expectation or don't show counts..." So please could you put an appropriate explanation either there or at sexy primes which does not have any mention of this either ; since the phrase you added in the history will soon have disappeared from WP. Also, what do you think about the remark on quintuplets at sexy prime? It says there can only be one quintuplet. But obviously, a reasonable definition should take into account the given impossibility (just like nobody would define prime triplets as those for which {p,p+2,p+4} are prime). — MFH:Talk 19:05, 7 April 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your reply on my talk page. Somme comments

The meaning of terms in Wikipedia should be based on reliable sources and not on what seems more reasonable based on the personal views of the editors.

of course I agree.

The MathWorld reference in sexy prime says "There is only a single sexy quintuplet, (5, 11, 17, 23, 29)". I haven't seen another definition, but I can understand why you would like it. The MathWorld definition gives a single trivial quintuplet and is not equivalent to the normal definition of a prime k-tuplet which is k primes as closely together as admissible when considering potential prime factors.

That was exactly my point. But although MathWorld is a kind of reference, and I don't want to underestimate its value), basically it's whatever Eric Weisstein has typed into his editor. There are some definitions apparently created by himself and copied to OEIS, which are frowned upon by others. E.g. recently I was heavily flamed by R.K.Guy when I used EWW's definitions of "squareful, cubeful,..." (which makes perfectly sense to me) - to RKG and other people, these terms should mean the same thing than 2-full,3-full...
Just to say that Eric might well be open to modify his definition (if he did not take it from another reference work, but as you said it is improbable that such would exist), if we convince him that another one would make more sense.
(PS: of course I know about your findings of the largest of those k-tuplets you mentioned) — MFH:Talk 19:41, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
Thanks for elaborating on k-tuplets, and congrats for the nice find of the 4-quadruplet (which could also be named a hexadecuplet, isn't it? Well, no need to fear being spammed by lists of those, I suppose...) PS: Do you use home-made, hand-tailored software to do such searches? — MFH:Talk 05:38, 16 April 2008 (UTC)
[...got cpu time after finding largest 15-tuplet some days ago...]
Is it a coincidence that this happened just after I left you a message on this sexy prime stuff? - PS: maybe it would be easier if we continued discussion by e-mail -- unless you like the fact that this conversation allows you to "publish" & time-stamp your "daily" findings :-) — MFH:Talk 12:46, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of Mosques Article

H, I am having a problem editing the List of Mosques article. As you can see, it previously grouped mosques according to geography. But now a new user decided to make a specail section for only the Arab states. This is blatantly political, and it messes up the the flow in a variety of ways. First, you look at the sections Israel and Palestinian Authority. The Jerusalem mosques are listed under Palestinian Authority, which is not the case at all. And the Ibrahimi Mosque of Hebron is listed under Israel. The logic used in grouping these mosques is idiotic at best. I would greatly appreciate your help in reverting the article the way it was before, mosque categories based on country, as it is more logical and flows much better.--Brad M. (talk) 14:05, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I tried to get involved, but for some reason I cannot make any edits from my account. I do not know if I am being blocked or if it is a glitch. Anyway, can I ask that you open up the subject on the article discussion page until I get get this affair in order? I would greatly appreciate it.--Brad M. (talk) 02:04, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Heraclio Bernal

Just wanted to stop by and thank you for fixing the formatting for the ballad on the article. I have been trying to get some help, or guidance on how to do it. Again much appreciated for the assistance. Just so I know, had you seen one of my posts asking for help, or did you just stumble on the article? --I Write Stuff (talk) 12:51, 9 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Comparative Distance Links

You write:

There is a question about the old edit [1] by you at Wikipedia:Help desk#Comparative Distance Links. The links look a little odd to me. Any comments?

Thanks for the heads up. I have responded at the help desk. -- Chris j wood (talk) 10:33, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks

I really appreciate you answering my question and really following through on it. I'm new here and let's just say don't really know my way around. Thanks for all your help. Æon 15:41, 10 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] thank you!

Willow wren (talk) 13:04, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] re: Clark Gesner

Thank you again. We'll give it some time but if we don't here from Kingboyk I will definitely contact you. Willow wren (talk) 13:43, 12 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] List of isotopes

Please just replace the article with your table instead of proposing and discussing it, which seems silly considering that nature of the list (commonly found in general encyclopedias) and the improvements you've offered. There's a lot to debate on Wikipedia without discussing the obvious. --Blechnic (talk) 00:58, 14 April 2008 (UTC)

Thank you. --Blechnic (talk) 02:49, 17 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Thanks for answering

THANKS for awnsering so quickly! I may register an account. Still, have to decide. 64.203.192.70 (talk) 16:58, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Terry Anderson (Politician) Article

Thanks for the quick response. In a way, I wish the article was deleted. At least this way, I would know why it was deleted. By drastically reducing it and redirecting it elsewhere, I have no idea why it was effectively zapped! How can I follow up and find out why it was redirected? Smonzavi (talk) 02:48, 19 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vanadlisim

There is a vandal going about under an IP address 205.202.240.118 He/she has made ridiculous edits such as changing the name of Surianme to China, and the Capital to Alaska. All it takes is a glance back through his/her history and you can see how many times they have vandalized. Thank You. (Red4tribe (talk) 19:35, 23 April 2008 (UTC))

[edit] Thanks for the reply

I worked it out it was a problem with Firefox, not Wikimedia, and now I have it under control. Thanks for the insanely quick reply! acne_m (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 14:24, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Indonesian terrorism

Hi I have just come across a 'terrorism definition' block of text in the indonesian terrorism category - I am concerned that such a placed template is problematic - as category space is possibly an 'unread' space - have you put that in all terrorism cat spaces at all? - it seems to be something that should be qualified in an article SatuSuro 01:31, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

Thanks for your response - I can relate to your response - and understand it - not sure where I am gonna go with it all - as there seem to be some parallel arts that I will have to get my head around - and I understand and accept your not wanting to go into where why or how - thanks for that SatuSuro 15:22, 9 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Convoy SC-143

Thanks for fixing the links; I was a bit distracted last week. Xyl 54 (talk) 16:36, 12 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WTIX-AM

I just saw your final repsonse to me on the Help Desk from March 15, and for all practical purposes, the only surviving remnant of the WTIX (AM) article is the link to the New Orleans station.

Ever since I saw on the Help Desk that you shouldn't just copy and paste without crediting the person who contributed you're copying and pasting from in another article, I've tried to make sure I credited the other person. There was a case where a radio station changed call letters and what was left in the old article was only appropriate for the new article. The move wasn't handled correctly, and I moved the misplaced information to where it fit better, then later found out I needed to go back and credit who added it. That was NOT easy!Vchimpanzee · talk · contributions · 18:43, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Question

Thank you for answering, I've read the document and see what I have done wrong.. Sorry about that, there is so much information on that you loose you way.. Anway the reason I would like to make a page is because TASCQ is a non-profit company founded to maintaining and enhance the area of Temple Bar in Dublin, Ireland. For us it would just be to inform people about the company, without promoting or selling anything. I've read the document you gave me, but it is still not really clear to me. I have to have a new account just for me to make a page, but I can still not upload images? Is there any concrete way I could get TASCQ on wikipedia or can I just forget about it.. haha??

P.s. I don't know how it all exactly works so sorry if I do something wrong again.

Hope you can answer! Thanks Tascq (talk) 14:14, 21 May 2008 (UTC)