Talk:The Music of the Primes

A prime product
Is it my eyesight or a typo that makes the alleged first explicit formula to output all the primes, using 26 integer variables, of 1976 (p199-200 GB 2003 edition) seem to be:


 * (K+2) [an integer] multiplied by [opening curly bracket] {an expression with no division and with only positive integer powers [and thus an integer]} [closing curly bracket] and so the product of two integers?--SilasW (talk) 22:22, 3 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I haven't seen the book but it must refer to the formula at Formula for primes which is of form:
 * $$ (k+2)(1-\alpha_0^2-\alpha_1^2-\cdots-\alpha_{13}^2) > 0 $$.
 * The point is that the expression in the second parantheses is never above 1 and it is 1 if and only if all αi are 0, and in that case (k+2)×(1-0-0-...-0) = k+2 is prime. So one of the factors in the factorization is 1 and the other is the number itself which is an allowed factorization for a prime. PrimeHunter (talk) 23:00, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Electronic Music
Wouldn't the second paragraph of this article be better off as its own article, maybe linked by a disambiguation? Of course, it may not be worth its own article, but it could at least be removed from this page. 173.9.121.145 (talk) 18:17, 1 March 2010 (UTC)