Talk:Gillies' conjecture

Status of Conjecture / Other Papers Referencing Conjecture
It's possible that H. Z. Zhou may have made a stronger conjecture related to implication (2) for $$x \le M_p \le 2x$$ but I'll need to do some reading to be sure.Gramby (talk) 07:11, 24 January 2014 (UTC)

Mangled due to typesetting??
I found this:
 * $$ \log{\log{B}/log{A}} \, $$

I was going to do a minor edit, adding the missing backslash whose absence caused the italicization of "log" and the lack of space between "log" and "A". But then I saw that it was coded like this:
 * \log{\log{B}/log{A}}

The {curly braces} enclosing the quotient of two logs made it look as if a TeX-naive person might have intended log(log B/log A) even though it was rendered as log log B/log A, which would normally mean (log log B)/(log A), which is quite a different thing.

I'd have coded log log B/log A as
 * \log \log B/ \log A

without the seemingly purposeless {curly braces}.

I've changed it to
 * $$ \log(\log B/ \log A) \, $$

(coded as \log(\log B/ \log A), also without the extra {curly braces}) because it looked as if that might have been what was intended. But being unsure, I've added the "accuracy-section" tag. Michael Hardy (talk) 21:47, 25 January 2014 (UTC)
 * I wrote that by hand and I have no issue with the style; however, I did indeed intend to add the parenthesis which were in the original. It was merely an accident of omission. I have no issue with using grouping to clearly delineate things. I suppose that's 30 years worth of writing software that's coming in to play. That said, had I been less liberal with the groupings, I might well have noticed the missing parenthesis. I'm removing the accuracy tag since what you've done is correct, although not because I thought the curly braces had anything to do with parenthesis. Thanks. Gramby (talk) 06:36, 26 January 2014 (UTC)

WikiProject Mathematics
Shouldn't this article be under the auspices of Wikiproject Mathematics? Sofia Koutsouveli (talk) 07:21, 8 April 2014 (UTC)


 * Sure, anyone can add Maths rating. PrimeHunter (talk) 20:56, 8 April 2014 (UTC)