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September 06, 2012

The generalized Ulam spiral (La spirale d'Ulam généralisée)

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From AVirtualSpaceTimeTravelMachine: "Starting from the center of the picture, the points are numbered (1, 2, 3,...) when following a square spiral. The radius of the N-th sphere is proportional to the number of divisors of N."

[via Rafa Villota and Cliff Pickover who wrote, "Wondrous visualization of mysterious patterns in prime numbers."]

Concur.

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