Visualizing the Gilbreath expectation sequence

·Terry Tao··

One byproduct of learning how to use coding agents to create visualization apps is that it now becomes straightforward to convert any figure in one’s papers that had already been generated by code (e.g., in Python) into a more interactive, animated applet. I can illustrate this with Figure 1 from my recent paper on the Gilbreath conjecture with Chase and Hunter, reproduced below: This plot displays both exact and numerically simulated values of a certain poorly understood sequence relating to th...

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