• General_Effort@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    Yes, but it obviously wouldn’t work for +5 or +7. I don’t think you can just assume that the number of primes wouldn’t converge to some finite number just because the number of candidates goes to infinity.

    Dirichlet’s theorem proves that. I have since looked it up, and that’s correct. I didn’t realize at the time that I was asking it to elaborate the proof for Dirichlet’s theorem. Whether the elaboration is correct is something I will pass.

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      2 days ago

      No, I wouldn’t assume non-convergence either … NOR would I assume that that AI didn’t just grab that ‘high-level’ ‘Elaboration’ from some site … without a citation.

      (Very human … Lots of people use quotes to sound smart, hoping they’ll get away with it. LAWYERS! Ministers! Presidents, even! )

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        2 days ago

        The OP article doesn’t say it explicitly, but those mathematicians are getting paid.

        The chatbots at duckduckgo don’t have search.