“What a terrifying dream! I was all alone, entirely covered with this strange… noise. Dense and almost impenetrable sound of utterly nothing. Like a dust particle lost in the vacuum of the cosmos. Absolute silence! I have never felt so lonely in my entire life…” – doctor Nicholas Henderson stood up from his bed, went to the located close-by toilet, and started to brush his teeth.
“Two, three…five, seven, eleven, thirteen; to the right. Seventeen, nineteen; twenty-three, twenty-seven; to the left. Why do some prime numbers have this notorious tendency to go in pairs, while others are so terribly isolated? System! What is the greatest prime ever discovered?”
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Story 'The Loneliness Of Prime Numbers' by Stefan Szymczyk
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