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Shell programmingShell programmingPosted Dec 7, 2012 10:53 UTC (Fri) by egk (subscriber, #50799)In reply to: Shell programming by man_ls Parent article: Quotes of the week
Off topic, but anyone interested in the last digit of primes should search for "Chebychev bias", and especially the paper of Rubinstein and Sarnak on this topic. Very short summary: it's much more complicated than one might think...
And if you want to do numerical experiments on this type of questions, the right tool for the job is not a shell-scripting language. (Hint: Pari/GP).
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Shell programming Posted Dec 7, 2012 11:35 UTC (Fri) by man_ls (subscriber, #15091) [Link] What is really surprising is that for a quick check, Bash can be useful even for interesting mathematical questions.
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