From: Don Stockbauer on
On Feb 22, 7:58 pm, Gerry Myerson <ge...(a)maths.mq.edi.ai.i2u4email>
wrote:
> In article <phntn55ccfbjkvmittig7d4g206j1q1...(a)4ax.com>,
>
>  rom...(a)sbcglobal.net wrote:
> >    Assume Prime Numbers are Three Dimensional
>
> If you really want to set off alarm bells that scream
> CRANK POST COMING!!!!!
> then the above is a great way to start.
>
> I still can't make hide nor tail of your post,
> but I do wonder whether anything you've done
> really has anything to do with primes.
> What happens if you repeat your calculations using,
> say, all odd numbers instead of just the primes?
> Or using the numbers [ n log n ], n = 1, 2, ...,
> where [x] means the integer part of x
> and the log in question is the natural log?
> Come to think of it, what if you use natural logs
> instead of golden ratio logs? Do you still get "patterns"?
>
> > This 3D pattern was found by assuming Primes are cubic numbers
> > and that their sum represents the interior volume of the Prime spiral.  
>
> More alarm bells.
>
> --
> Gerry Myerson (ge...(a)maths.mq.edi.ai) (i -> u for email)

Wasn't the term "crank" in mathematics originally an honorable one, as
in "I'm going to crank out the answer"?