Listing Prime Numbers Periodically
Over millennia, people have considered prime numbers as unpredictable and hard to list. This study confirms that all positive integers without factors of 2, 3, 5 and 7 can be regarded as the offspring of 48 roots in the interval [11, 220]. These roots are to generate a Factor-Pair Table composed of 48 columns, each of which forms a basic binary matrix to indicate the locations of composite numbers. For a given interval, these composites are removed via mapping effect. After primality checking of the rest of the numbers, we identify all primes within the interval. We then form a Formula of Primes for prime prediction. Moreover, the Periodic Table of Primes (PTP) [1] is reconstructed based on the proposed algorithm to illustrate the distribution of primes and composites.
Authors
- Shu‐Cherng Fang (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5087-3262)
- Way Kuo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8845-1708)
- Han-Lin Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3053-2409)
- Nianrui Lin
Publication Details
- Journal
- Advances in Pure Mathematics
- Published
- 2025-01-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4236/apm.2025.154012
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Mathematics and Applications
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 12.26