Friday, October 20, 2006

Friday Oct 20

Finished proving unique factorization.
Noted that in other contexts, like Z[i] and Z[sqrt{-5}], the primes may be different, and unique factorization may fail.
Used unique factorization to study the following question: what fraction of integer points in the plane are visible from the origin? Answer: 6/pi2.
Notation: pa || n if p is prime and pa|n but pa+1 doesn't |n.

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